[LAU] Decent but not necessarily pro quality USB audio for laptop?

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Wed Jan 7 12:48:43 EST 2009


Joel Roth wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 12:21:24AM -1000, david wrote:
>> The other limitation of my Intel HDA sound chip that the Behringer I 
>> ordered will fix is the inability to record anything. The laptop has a 
>> 1/8" Mic input, but the ALSA drivers for the Intel chips can't record 
>> anything through it.
> 
> If you haven't already, you might try toggling the CAPTURE
> setting and umuting the MIC levels in the alsamixer window.

I tried that. Apparently the hardware fills a buffer and is supposed to 
notify the system the buffer is ready - but the system either never gets 
the notification or never responds to it. The last time I tried that was 
a good while ago, though.

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David
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