Re: [Alsa-user] Capture sound with Sound Blaster Live! Value

[Remi <em...@re...>]

Well, you're right. I'll surely go to bed less stupid tonight!

Setting the "Capture" flag on "Capture" and "Mic" and setting up the volume
on the capture track of "AC97" made it all work well again.

Thanks!

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Remi

On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 05:10:05PM +0200, Peter Zubaj wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> You need to set capture flag on "Capture" and on "Mic" too. You need to
> set "AC97 Capture" volume too (use alsamixer, hit F4 and set "AC97"
> volume).
> 
> Peter Zubaj
> 
> On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 09:19 -0400, Remi wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > I have a problem with my Sound Blaster Live! Value, but it's not to playback
> > sound; it's for capturing it instead.
> > 
> > With the Gnome Volume Control and alsamixer, I tried several times to set
> > which channel I want to be capture, while also setting the "capture" toggle
> > on the capture track itself. This gives me nothing. When I record, it's
> > still mute. I tried recording with several programs, including Skype and
> > mencoder, but no success -- just no sound.
> > 
> > When I set the capture toggle on the Mic track and unmut both that track and
> > Capture, I can hear myself with the microphone, but the computer still won't
> > record a thing.
> > 
> > I have Fedora Core 5 installed, with kernel 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5. I have Alsa
> > version 1.0.11rc2. (The only reason why I didn't update Alsa is because I
> > can't find a compiled RPM package in any Fedora or 3rd-party repositories
> > that I use.)
> > 
> > Anyone can help me? Thanks in advance!
> > 
> 

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Remi
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