recording sound problem

abdelkader belahcene wrote:
> hi,
> I tried to record sound, using the standard grecord on gnome
> (testing), although it is running correctly on a PC, it didn't record
> on my laptop which is a new one ( compaq dual core). The sound card is
> good since I can hear sound and play video.
>
> so I want to check that the recorder is good ( the headphone is good I
> checked it on other machine)
>

Do you want to record from something plugged into your sound card? You could try
using Audacity instead.

Have you run alsaconf?

Have you turned on the sound card input socket and set a level in alsamixer?

These are all described here:
http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Sound_in_Debian_GNU/Linux

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Chris.

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> hi,
> I tried to record sound, using the standard grecord on gnome
> (testing), although it is running correctly on a PC, it didn't record
> on my laptop which is a new one ( compaq dual core). The sound card is
> good since I can hear sound and play video.

> so I want to check that the recorder is good ( the headphone is good I
> checked it on other machine)

> any idea is welcome
> thanks
> bela

grecord always gives me problems. Audacity works for me, though; so, I
suggest you install and use audacity.

Mark

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hi, all, my laptop has problem out sound.
Mine is a samsung laptop, running debian testing.

"lspci|grep audio" outputs:
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)

I have install alsa driver.
"cat /dev/sndstat" outputs:
Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.12rc1 emulation code)
Kernel: Linux comex 2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP Mon Mar 26 17:17:36 UTC 2007 i686
Config options: 0

Installed drivers:
Type 10: ALSA emulation

Card config:
Intel 82801DB-ICH4 with STAC9752,53 at 0xe0100c00, irq 10
Intel 82801DB-ICH4 Modem at 0x2400, irq 10

Audio devices:
0: Intel 82801DB-ICH4 (DUPLEX)
1: Intel 82801DB-ICH4 Modem - Modem (DUPLEX)

Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Timers:
7: system timer

Mixers:
0: SigmaTel STAC9752,53
1: Silicon Laboratory Si3036,8 rev

THE PROBLEM is when I "mpg321 {musicfile}", an error occurs:
Creating link /home/lestat/.kde/socket-comex.
can't create mcop directory
while "mpg321 {musicfile} -o alsa" or "mpg321 {musicfile} -o oss" works well!

Could anyone tell what's wrong?

THANKS

Best regards

Canhua

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