[KLUG Members] recording audio on gentoo

[Richard Zimmerman]

Mike Williams wrote:

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>    Have you every tried Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/? 
>    It is Open Source and it can be installed on Windows, Mac, and
> yes, that was the most recent attempt, and it looks like a great 
> packages, but it behaves the same way as arecord, gramofile, and 
> whatever else I've tried:  no sound.  In alsamixer I can toggle the 
> playback of the line input, and the sound toggles like you would 
> expect.  I can also select what inputs are going to be captured (I get 
> two, apparently), but none of them seem to work.

   Have you looked at the audio permissions? Audacity (really the users 
running it) need to have permissions set to allow them to access the 
audio devices. Also, it there something else running that's already 
attached to the sound server? Are you running a sound server? I have 
noticed when a sound server is running, Audacity can't attached to the 
audio devices... /dev/mixer and /dev/audio or /dev/dsp.

   I'm running Debian so I'm not going to give you specific help on 
Gentoo but I have encountered both problems on Debian trying to get 
audio working properly.

   BTW, I swear by Audacity. I'll probably never use anything else for 
recording audio. It's simple, it works and has every convievable option 
I could ever hope to use. 'Then again my setup runs on a dual PII-450 
system w/ 384mb of ram and a SCSI sub-system using the 2.6 kernel..

   Some thoughts for ya....

   Richard "Goose" Zimmerman

P.S. Yeah, I'm still kicking!!!

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