On Thu, 13 May 2004, Johannes Mockenhaupt (aka Joe Malik) wrote: > > I'm using an iBook G4 (last November vintage) running a 2.4.23-pre5 > > iBooks don't have a line-in, there's only a headphone jack > and the built-in microphone which is not usable for this purpose. > AFAIK the only way to record with an iBook is to buy some sort of > USB soundcard that has a line-in.
Well, that would certainly explain why, whatever I try (and I had already tried chmod-ing /dev/dsp, as those who wrote to me off-list suggested, and that just changed the error message slightly, so I assumed that MAKEDEV probably did know what it was doing!) I can't record; I had been assured that the headphone jack equated to the soundcard line-in ... Hohum. Is this true of laptops in general, or just iBooks, do you happen to know? My server machine has deeply non-functional sound (tried to upgrade to ALSA; failed) so I was hoping to avoid that ... Diana.