[KLUG Members] recording audio on gentoo

[Mike Williams]

>
> From:
> Richard Zimmerman <ke4rit at knbpower.com>
>
>  
>
>   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.

Permissions look OK.  All 3 are root user, audio group, and both have
rw-.  The user that's running audacity is in the audio group. I don't
need execute to /dev/dsp or anything like that, do I?

Audacity chokes if alsasound isn't running.  The fact that Alsasound
seems to be happily mixing sound from several programs suggests that
there's a sound server in place, but I don't know how to turn it off if
it exists. 

The other hint I've found is that I get a "cs46xx:  failure waiting for
FIFO command to complete" in dmesg when starting alsa.  The only thing
google seems to be able to tell me is that adding options thinkpad stops
this if you're running on an IBM Thinkpad, which I'm not.

>
>   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..
>
Athlon 64, 1 Gig RAM, 2.6 kernel here.  Just a basic IDE drive, though.