You do not say what distribution you are running on that Thinkpad. So, I am going to guess that you are using pulse audio and have pavucontrol, and pulseaudio-utils installed.
If that is the case try this guide: https://ro-che.info/articles/2017-07-21-record-audio-linux If you use pulse audio, alsa, ... just about anything and you are fan of ffmpeg - you could try: Check supported ffmpeg devices: ffmpeg -devices true -f dshow -i dummy if you use PA - use pavucontrol to select microphone and set its gain: ffmpeg -f pulse -i default output.mp3 ffmpeg -f pulse -i default output.wav if you use alsa - use alsamixer to select microphone and set its gain: ffmpeg -f alsa -i default output.mp3 ffmpeg -f alsa -i default output.wav If your distro is really old and still uses oss - just replace alsa/pulse with oss in ffmpeg options. Hope it helps, Tomas On Mon, 2019-10-28 at 15:50 -0700, Dick Steffens wrote: > I'm having problems using Audacity or Ardour5 to record audio on my > Thinkpad X200 Tablet. Both programs hang in different ways. > > Using Audacity, sometimes, when pressing the record button, it will > start and stop in one second. Pressing record again does the same thing. > But sometimes it works, and I can record. > > Using Ardour5, I click on New Session, giving me a Session Setup window. > Using the Empty Template, assigning a name, Test-3, and clicking Open > gives me an Audio/MIDI Setup window. Clicking Start gives me a small > window that says, "Failed to open audio device." Clicking OK Takes me > back to the Audio/MIDI Setup window. Closing that window gives me > another small window, Loading Error, that says, "Could not create > session in /"home/rstreff/Documents/Ardour/Test-3" Cannot connect to > audio/midi engine. Clicking OK takes me back to the Session Setup window. > > How can I tell if I've got a hardware problem or a software problem? > > And, is there a simple record program I can use that will let me record > and monitor the recording on the fly? > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
