Setting your output volume is not the same thing as setting your input gain. You need to do input, and possibly also line 1 and/or line 2, etc. David Bruzos writes: > Hello all: > I've had my FC2 installation since it first came out a few months ago. Since then, I've also had a problem that I never > fixed: > The problem is that when I use "rec" to record sound from my sound card nothing comes out. Actually, it makes a wave > file, but it is completely silent. I have tried turning my volume up all of the way using aumix -w, -v, -r, -m, and > still nothing. My mic does work though. If I turn up the mic volume all the way up, I can hear my self talk through my > speakers when I talk into the mic. I don't understand! > I have a SB Live! sound card, using the alsa 10k driver that comes with the kernel. > > Just to try it, I recompiled my kernel with OSS support instead of alsa and the sound recording works just fine. So, I > know I don't have any hardware problems... > > Also, when I am playing audio, the -t and -b (EQ) switches for aumix do not do anything. I can type, aumix -b 0 (or > whatever) and the bass stays the same. I know this can work, because my Mandrake 10 box works the SB Live! without a > problem. I can also record with the Mandrake machine just fine. Please help! > > My FC2 laptop also has problems recording from the sound card. It is not silent though. Instead, it makes a very > distorded sound. I don't get it! Oh, my laptop has a totally different sound card than my other machine. > > If anyone is able to record/change-the-eq-settings, please tell me how! > > Thanks to everyone in advance. > > > David B. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040
