Re: [Audacity-devel] playback issue
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From: Graham M. <gr...@gr...> - 2005-09-11 21:49:54
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>> "How do I turn off OSS emulation under Fedora Core 4?" >> It looks like I'm running it, and I don't want to be. > > Firstly, it doesn't do any harm, and doesn't stop you using ALSA > normally. Yes, I discovered this myself in the ALSA FAQ last night. Thanks for the advice anyway. This is just helping me narrow down what ISN'T the problem with my recording subsystem, and every little bit helps. For some reason I can't get recording from any source to work at all ever since I upgraded to Fedora Core 4. I've got a Soundblaster Live!, and it's worked on every previous version of Linux (including Fedora Core 3), but now it just... doesn't. If I plug a CD player or something into line-in on the sound (so I get a steady stream of audio), I can *hear* the audio coming out of the PC speakers. If I mute the line-in in alsamixer, then that audio is muted; if I change the volume, the volume changes. But it doesn't seem to matter if I've got that channel set to "capture" or not, whether or not I use ALSA or OSS, or the application (Audacity 1.2.3 from a binary RPM, Audacity 1.2.3 from CVS compiled from scratch, CVS HEAD compiled from scratch, KRec, or even sox's "rec". Whenever I try to record, I get a flat line. Just recorded digital silence. I've scoured Google, and ALSA newsgroups and what-have-you. I've found one guy who seems to have the same problem <http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/355267>, but no one had an answer for him either. I'm about to switch to a different sound card if I can get my hands on one and see if that helps. This is becoming frustrating. -- Graham Mitchell - computer science teacher, Leander High School "It is not possible to be 'incidentally a Christian'. The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This suggests a reason for the dislike of Christians by nominal or non-Christians: their lives contain no overwhelming firsts but many balances." -- Sheldon Vanauken |