On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 12:54:47 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 15:19:14 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > I checked the Audacity manual which recommended installing alsa-oss and > > > starting Audacity with the command line aoss audacity. There was still > > > no input selector on the toolbar. > > > > > > I also checked for the subject audacity in the debian user archive for > > > each month of this year. There were none. > > > > > > My system is Lenny and Audacity works fine with sound files I created in > > > the past.
[...] > Edit > Preferences offers a choice of devices for recording and > playback. They are currently set to Alsa: default. I have also tried > selecting Alsa: HDA NVidia: AD198x Analog (hw:0,0). Both choices seem OK to me. > Since installing > alsa-oss there is now a choice for OSS: /dev/dsp but there is no > /dev/dsp and udev wont let me make one. I do not understand why the ALSA devices do not work; in any case, it cannot hurt to try OSS. Udev should create /dev/dsp for you if you do this (as root): modprobe snd_pcm_oss > The reqested outputs are: > > Script started on Tue 15 Sep 2009 12:38:34 PM EDT > dragon:~# cat /proc/asound > cat: /proc/asound: Is a directory Sorry, my mistake; I meant cat /proc/asound/cards > dragon:~# grep -ir mic /proc/asound > /proc/asound/NVidia/codec#0: Pin Default 0x02a19122: [Jack] Mic at Ext Front > /proc/asound/NVidia/codec#0: Pin Default 0x01a19020: [Jack] Mic at Ext Rear > /proc/asound/card0/codec#0: Pin Default 0x02a19122: [Jack] Mic at Ext Front > /proc/asound/card0/codec#0: Pin Default 0x01a19020: [Jack] Mic at Ext Rear That looks OK, too; what about this: grep -ir capture /proc/asound -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
