Re: [Audacity-devel] should I code up a debugging aid?

[Gale (A. Team) <ga...@au...>]

William F. Dudley Jr.-2 wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to record using version 1.3.5beta as currently "shipping"
> in ubuntu, and I've also tried 1.3.6.
> In either case, I find that audacity won't show me the input selector
> dropdown (mic/line/etc.), which makes
> it nearly useless as far as recording is concerned.

We're not defending the current lack of the selector, but you "can"
select the input source in ALSA mixer. 

Is the "1.3.6" our source tarball? It would be best to check what 
happens in a build made with CVS HEAD, which will have the latest
PortAudio updates.
   


William F. Dudley Jr.-2 wrote:
> 
> I've read the "help" at:
> 
> http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mixer_Toolbar_Issues#Input_Selector_minimised.2C_sliders_present
> 
> but that's not been terribly useful.  The possible reasons are
> enumerated as these (with my answers on the next line):
> 
> 1. Another audio program like XMMS is using the sound device
>         no, nothing else running.
> 2. A sound daemon like esound (ESD) or aRts is using the sound device
>         no, nothing in the process table like that
> 3. You have system sounds turned on in a desktop environment like Gnome or
> KDE
>         I've turned them off, and this fixes the "cannot open Alsa"
> messages sent to stdout/stderr
>         when I run audacity from the command line.
> 4. You don't have the correct permissions to access the sound device
>         I'm in group audio, /dev/dsp is owned by root:audio, so that looks
> good.
> 5. You are using Audacity 1.2.6 and are selecting the ALSA device but
> don't have the necessary OSS emulation modules installed.
>         running 1.3.5beta or 1.3.6, so nope, that's not it.  Portaudio
> is v19.  Is this good? bad? 

v19 is mandatory for 1.3 now. 



William F. Dudley Jr.-2 wrote:
> 
> 
> 6. The recording device you currently have selected on the Audio I/O
> tab of the Preferences only has one input source
>         the motherboard sound device has both mic and line inputs like
> all normal sound cards.
> 
> Since others have had this problem (not finding the input selector
> dropdown), would it be useful to add a debug mode
> to audacity that would cause it to print out WHY it isn't showing the
> input selector?  I'm quite willing to code this up.
> It's either that or find another recording program that understands
> about line inputs.

Can you post the text at Help > Audio Device Info....?



Gale 






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