Hallo, Thoralf Schulze hat gesagt: // Thoralf Schulze wrote:
just did some quick testing with ubuntu 6.06 and pd 0.39-2 - pretty much the same thing. there seems to be no way of getting sound into pd via the audigy card ... one thing caught my attention: ubuntu (or gnome, respectively) comes with a volume control applet. if i select my crappy on-board sound card as active alsa device, there is a capture-tab in this applet that doesn't appear for the audigy. could it be that capturing audio is simply broken in alsa with this card? is there an easy way of testing if the line-in input of a soundcard actually works with alsa?
First: Running pd -oss is not deprecated or anything. I mostly use "-oss" myself. So if it works, just stick with it.
To test, if ALSA works in general, you should use "aplay" and "arecord" first. Try "arecord -D default -f cd some.wav" to see if you can capture from the "default" device. If this works, try the "hw:X" device like: "arecord -D hw:1 -f cd some.wav". THis actually might fail, depending on your hardware (it will probably fail on RME cards for example).
The missing "capture" control for your Audigy may not be a bug: Many soundcards don't have a mixer so there's nothing to mix. Some cards have a mixer, but not for everything. It migh be, that the Audigy doesn't have an Input mixer.
If you run "alsamixer -c1" to select the second card ("-c1") to control, then alsamixer will show the mixer controls available on your card.
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