-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 27 Jun 2002 at 4:13, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
> > > -V tells you what Sox is doing as it does it. Otherwise you don't see > > > too much. > > > > > > > I don't see anything even with it :-( > > If not, then there's something very amiss, cause sox usually tells you > what is going on; I've never seen it unable to do anything at all > before. At the very least you should be getting an empty wav file. BTW, > it's an uppercase V. A paste of your window here to email might be helpful. > Also what sound drivers you are using (OSS, kernel, soundforge, etc) as well > as your Mandrake version. > 1. I have to re-type it (since I have to send this from a non-Linux box), but here is exactly what it looks like after I type a sox command when I have realplayer running: $ sox -V -c2 -r 44100 -t ossdsp -w -s /dev/dsp test.wav and that's it. Nothing else until I hit ctrl-C. 2. How do I find out for sure what sound driver is in use? The magic of mandrake configuration these days is so good that I never had to configure anything to get sound to work, so I have no idea what it did behind the scenes. 3. I am running LM 8.1. As far as I know all of the sound stuff is exactly as mandrake configured it. If it's relevant (I guess that it probably isn't) I am using KDE. I am doing all this stuff as a regular user, not root. > > This pretty much matches my experience of a few months ago. At that time I > > tried a bunch of different programs that were supposed to be able to > > record sound. They produced either nothing at all or an empty file. But I > > can hear sound from realplayer, mp3s, CDs, etc. just fine. > > So sound is being produced. How is realplayer set up? As for "native > sound drivers" or what exactly? > "Use native sound drivers" is checked. Neither of the "Sound card compatibility" settings is checked. (These are labelled "Disable 16-bit sound (use 8-bit only)" and "Disable custom sampling rates".) > If your /dev/dsp is producing sound then you should be able to record > it; unless the device is being locked for some reason. > > Have you got Esound loaded? > Not according to a ps listing. I do see one sound-related process: /usr/bin/artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -s 60 -m artsmessage -l 3 -f Doc Evans PS For reference, here are the columns I see in kmix (I freely admit that I have never understood what they all mean; some are obvious, but some aren't). Also listed is whether there is a green toggle light at the head of the column and/or a red toggle light at the bottom. Volume G Pcm G Speaker G Line G, R Microphone G, R CD G, R Pcm2 G IGain G, R Line1 G, R PhoneIn G, R PhoneOut G Video G, R There are no red triangles. Volume and IGain have green triangles. I have tried various inputs (i.e., lighting different red lights. I imagine that IGain is the one that I probably want for realplayer; in any case, no setting produces any output). The obvious test was to try to record off a CD; that didn't generate any output either. Unfortunately "man kmix" says that there is no manual entry, and kmix itself doesn't seem to have a Help button. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.0.2 -- QDPGP 2.60 Comment: Key obtainable from servers: ID 0x362912B8 iQA/AwUBPRtD5GnXrLw2KRK4EQKVmACcCACI66zelmtJpVqUjAm8vBfMR3gAnjCG vRZzEqziivPMsDaVWsDsF30E =+Go2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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