That should be the program alsamixer, not amixer. Make sure to press F5 to get all of the playback/capture devices shown.
On Mon, 2005-21-03 at 22:02 -0500, Scott Williamson wrote: > Ah, Console sound card echo. > > I found that with my cheep YMFPCI sound card that there is a channel > called "wave capture" that is enabled for recording by default. And this > is only visible when one uses ALSA sound drivers. One needs to use an > ALSA mixer control program (I use amixer, the text mode one) to disable, > or reduce the volume on these sound cards. Once this is done there is no > more echo at all! > > Why this channel does not appear under OSS, and why it appears to be > enabled by default in the hardware is beyond me. The GUI mixers all list > this channel simply as WAVE, and I have two WAVE channels. So remember > amixer. > > The card is called ICEnsemble ICE1230 by OSS, and Yamaha DS-XG (YMF734) > by ALSA > > On Tue, 2005-22-03 at 10:52 +0800, Shaun Dwyer wrote: > > Scott Bussinger wrote: > > > > >We just tried to go entirely with softphones in our office gave up after a > > >month or so of trying. I tried probably 10 different softphones running on > > >3.0Ghz WinXP machines and none of them were workable. I tried both SIP and > > >IAX2 softphones using headsets plugged into the audio ports, USB headsets, > > >and USB phone interface boxes (www.phoneconnector.com). > > > > > >While it wasn't hard to get them to work and the concept would have been > > >perfect in our environment, the quality was _terrible_! We had many issues > > > > > > > > <snip> > > > > I found that for the most part, crappy sounds cards caused the bulk of > > problems with soft phones. > > I noticed that on, for example, intel D865PERLL motherboards with an > > onboard realtek AC97 sound > > device, There was heaps of echo for the remote end (using a softphone or > > a hardphone). > > > > I also found that a stock standard Creative PCI 128 sound card gave > > great results. > > > > Given PCI128s arn't available anymore, I'm sure you could find an > > alternative, like perhaps > > even going as far as a SB Live Value.. if you buy these in bulk, im sure > > you can get em cheap > > as chips. > > > > I've only ever used X-lite as a soft phone and found it to be really > > very good. > > > > Cheers, > > -Shaun > > _______________________________________________ > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > > -- > Scott J. Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to > the capitalist mode of production. -- Herbert Marcuse > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > -- Scott J. Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Humor in the Court: Q: The truth of the matter is that you were not an unbiased, objective witness, isn't it. You too were shot in the fracas? A: No, sir. I was shot midway between the fracas and the naval. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
