On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 11:47, Brook Humphrey wrote: > Well I dont experiance this but I have used many ac97 sound cards, Hercules > game fortisimo II and III, and cretive labs sound blaster. And none of them > will record sound under kde. It simply does not work. By the way the mic does > work as the sound comes back out of the speakers.
What you need are loopback /dev/dsp's. They work; I make daily recordings using Sox. The only open source sound drivers I have seen that allow duplex operation and thus recording without loopback devs are the Aureal drivers at Sourceforge. In the rest of the world, the quality of the open source soundcard drivers varies wildly and unpredictably; mostly with abject failure when you are talking about recording. I get superior results and better support from 4front Technologies at www.opensound.com. Those sound drivers will work with just about *any* sound card regardless of wether it's a half or full duplex card. The cost of the drivers is very reasonable and worth the expense. You get a wide range of capabilities for even the cheapest soundcard; including a small soundcard performance/diagnostic test utility. Most importantly, the capabilities and performance of the 4front OSS drivers are consistent across a huge population of sound cards; therefore greatly reducing your work when you are helping a friend or customer get sound running. --LX P.S. No, I don't work for them. I've just had a damn good time using their stuff. -- ��������������������������������������������������� Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdk Evolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ ���������������������������������������������������
