I'm trying to record from the built-in mic in my laptop (Dell Inspiron 4150) but it doesn't seem to work right. If I select "Mic" as the capture source and max out the volume then when I tap the microphone I can hear it loud and clear in my headphones. Then I try:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] patches]$ arecord -d 5 foo.wav Recording WAVE 'foo.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono I tap the mic a few times as this is running. I hear the taps great while recording, but playing back foo.wav I just hear static, with the taps barely audible. Adjusting the recording levels doesn't change anything. If I try: [EMAIL PROTECTED] patches]$ arecord -f cd -d 5 foo.wav Recording WAVE 'foo.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo then I get a 5 second wav file that's completely blank. As far as I can tell, any format that's not U8 has the same effect. Any ideas of what's going on? Here's some info about my system: [EMAIL PROTECTED] patches]$ cat /home/n8gray/.asoundrc pcm.intel8x0 { type hw card 0 } ctl.intel8x0 { type hw card 0 } [EMAIL PROTECTED] patches]$ cat /proc/asound/version Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 0.9.6. Compiled on Aug 26 2003 for kernel 2.4.21-0.16mm-mdkcustom. [EMAIL PROTECTED] patches]$ cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [I82801CAICH3 ]: ICH - Intel 82801CA-ICH3 Intel 82801CA-ICH3 at 0xd800, irq 11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] patches]$ cat /proc/asound/devices 0: [0- 0]: ctl 25: [0- 1]: digital audio capture 16: [0- 0]: digital audio playback 24: [0- 0]: digital audio capture 1: : sequencer 33: : timer [EMAIL PROTECTED] patches]$ cat /proc/asound/modules 0 snd-intel8x0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] patches]$ cat /proc/asound/pcm 00-00: Intel ICH : Intel 82801CA-ICH3 : playback 1 : capture 1 00-01: Intel ICH - MIC ADC : Intel 82801CA-ICH3 - MIC ADC : capture 1 Let me know if there's anything else you need to know. Thanks, -Nathan -- >>>-- Nathaniel Gray -- Caltech Computer Science ------> >>>-- Mojave Project -- http://mojave.cs.caltech.edu --> ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel