Re: [Alsa-user] recording settings for ALSA

[Clemens L. <cl...@la...>]

Austin, Tate wrote:
> Hey, I am trying to rifle through the documentation to figure out how to
> set recording for my line-in.

Depends on the hardware.

> I have a working microphone but no working line-in and I have been
> told I ahve to choose between one or the other, so I am trying to
> find a way to select line-in for the task, when in alsamixer if I
> go to the capture view I can select "line 2" which is of course,
> not 'line-in'.  I have tried just pressing spacebar when I have
> line-in selected which of course, in true open source fashion,
> does not seem to do what the documentation claims it should (set
> it for '<captur>').

What is the output of "amixer contents"?


Regards,
Clemens