Greetings list, I have managed to get my Creative Extigy card to work using alsa and playback with ogg123 etc works fine.
Now I would like to be able to record using the Extigy which is connected to my audio setup using an optical cable. I used the "amixer" tool to see what channel was selected for capture. The first thing I noticed the "Digital In" is only mono, is this right??? The other thing I noticed is I have two masters, master0 and master1, which also strikes me as a bit strange. Here is the output from "amixer contents" // snip numid=15,iface=MIXER,name='Master Playback Switch' ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw---,values=1 : values=on numid=16,iface=MIXER,name='Master Playback Volume' ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---,values=6,min=0,max=200,step=0 : values=152,152,152,152,152,152 numid=17,iface=MIXER,name='Master Playback Volume',index=1 ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---,values=1,min=0,max=200,step=0 : values=152 numid=18,iface=MIXER,name='Tone Control - Bass' ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---,values=1,min=0,max=96,step=0 : values=48 numid=19,iface=MIXER,name='Tone Control - Treble' ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---,values=1,min=0,max=96,step=0 : values=48 numid=1,iface=MIXER,name='PCM Playback Switch' ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw---,values=1 : values=on numid=2,iface=MIXER,name='PCM Playback Volume' ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---,values=1,min=0,max=200,step=0 : values=200 numid=5,iface=MIXER,name='Line Playback Switch' ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw---,values=1 : values=off numid=6,iface=MIXER,name='Line Playback Volume' ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---,values=2,min=0,max=200,step=0 : values=200,200 numid=7,iface=MIXER,name='Line Playback Volume',index=1 ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---,values=1,min=0,max=200,step=0 : values=200 numid=9,iface=MIXER,name='Mic Playback Switch' ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw---,values=1 : values=off numid=10,iface=MIXER,name='Mic Playback Volume' ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---,values=1,min=0,max=200,step=0 : values=200 numid=12,iface=MIXER,name='Capture Input Source' ; type=ENUMERATED,access=rw---,values=1,items=3 ; Item #0 'Input 0' ; Item #1 'Mic' ; Item #2 'Mixer' : values=0 numid=13,iface=MIXER,name='Capture Switch' ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw---,values=1 : values=on numid=14,iface=MIXER,name='Capture Volume' ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---,values=1,min=0,max=200,step=0 : values=200 numid=23,iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Optical Playback Switch' ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw---,values=1 : values=on numid=8,iface=MIXER,name='3D Stereo Extender Switch' ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw---,values=1 : values=off numid=11,iface=MIXER,name='Channel Routing Mode Select' ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---,values=1,min=0,max=6,step=0 : values=6 numid=3,iface=MIXER,name='Digital In Switch' ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw---,values=1 : values=on numid=4,iface=MIXER,name='Digital In Volume' ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---,values=1,min=0,max=200,step=0 : values=200 numid=21,iface=MIXER,name='Digital Out Playback Switch' ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw---,values=1 : values=on numid=22,iface=MIXER,name='Digital Out1 Playback Switch' ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw---,values=1 : values=on numid=20,iface=MIXER,name='Speaker Playback Switch' ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw---,values=1 : values=on // snip Firstly, does this output look right. Secondly, why is the digital input only mono. And finally how do I tell Alsa which input to use for capture? Just as a reference, I am using Alsa 0.9.6 compiled from source, on a Gentoo system running Kernel 2.4.22 patched with grsecurity. Any suggestions greatly appreciated. >From Mitchell ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
