I've been messing around a bit (2 much?)... first on advice I installed<br>paconfig.deb<br>which resulted in not having sound anymore :-(<br>so, other advice I followed:<br>sudo apt-get install padevchooser<br>then alt-F2 to run padevchooser<br>
which didn't help at all, so I tried to undo it by: <br>pulseaudio -k<br>this gave this output:<br>E: main.c: Failed to kill daemon.<br><br>so here's the output of the present amixer: <br><br>Simple mixer control 'Line in',0<br>
Capabilities: cvolume<br> Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right<br> Limits: Capture 0 - 255<br> Front Left: Capture 207 [81%] [0.00dB]<br> Front Right: Capture 207 [81%] [0.00dB]<br>Simple mixer control 'Mic',0<br>
Capabilities: cvolume<br> Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right<br> Limits: Capture 0 - 255<br> Front Left: Capture 183 [72%] [-12.00dB]<br> Front Right: Capture 183 [72%] [-12.00dB]<br>Simple mixer control 'Phone',0<br>
Capabilities: cvolume<br> Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right<br> Limits: Capture 0 - 255<br> Front Left: Capture 207 [81%] [0.00dB]<br> Front Right: Capture 207 [81%] [0.00dB]<br>Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0<br>
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined<br> Playback channels: Mono<br> Mono: Playback [off]<br>Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Center/LFE',0<br> Capabilities: pvolume<br> Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right<br>
Limits: Playback 0 - 255<br> Mono:<br> Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]<br> Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]<br>Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Front',0<br> Capabilities: pvolume<br> Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right<br>
Limits: Playback 0 - 255<br> Mono:<br> Front Left: Playback 202 [79%] [-1.25dB]<br> Front Right: Playback 202 [79%] [-1.25dB]<br>Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Rear',0<br> Capabilities: pvolume<br> Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right<br>
Limits: Playback 0 - 255<br> Mono:<br> Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]<br> Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]<br>Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Unknown',0<br> Capabilities: pvolume<br> Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right<br>
Limits: Playback 0 - 255<br> Mono:<br> Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]<br> Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]<br>Simple mixer control 'Aux',0<br> Capabilities: cvolume<br> Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right<br>
Limits: Capture 0 - 255<br> Front Left: Capture 207 [81%] [0.00dB]<br> Front Right: Capture 207 [81%] [0.00dB]<br>Simple mixer control 'Analog Center/LFE',0<br> Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined<br>
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right<br> Limits: Playback 0 - 255<br> Mono:<br> Front Left: Playback 204 [80%] [0.75dB] [on]<br> Front Right: Playback 204 [80%] [0.75dB] [on]<br>Simple mixer control 'Analog Front',0<br>
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined<br> Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right<br> Limits: Playback 0 - 255<br> Mono:<br> Front Left: Playback 204 [80%] [0.75dB] [on]<br> Front Right: Playback 204 [80%] [0.75dB] [on]<br>
Simple mixer control 'Analog Rear',0<br> Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined<br> Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right<br> Limits: Playback 0 - 255<br> Mono:<br> Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB] [on]<br>
Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB] [on]<br>Simple mixer control 'Analog Side',0<br> Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined<br> Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right<br> Limits: Playback 0 - 255<br>
Mono:<br> Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB] [on]<br> Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB] [on]<br>Simple mixer control 'Analog Source',0<br> Capabilities: cenum<br> Items: 'Phone' 'Mic' 'Line in' 'Aux'<br>
Item0: 'Line in'<br>Simple mixer control 'CAPTURE feedback',0<br> Capabilities: pvolume<br> Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right<br> Limits: Playback 0 - 255<br> Mono:<br> Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]<br>
Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]<br>Simple mixer control 'Digital Source',0<br> Capabilities: cenum<br> Items: 'IEC958 out' 'i2s mixer out' 'IEC958 in' 'i2s in' 'AC97 in' 'SRC out'<br>
Item0: 'i2s in'<br>Simple mixer control 'Shared Mic/Line in',0<br> Capabilities: cenum<br> Items: 'Line in' 'Mic in'<br> Item0: 'Line in'<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 6:19 AM, Lee Revell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rlrevell@joe-job.com">rlrevell@joe-job.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Please post the output of "amixer".<br>
<br>
Lee<br>
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On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 6:46 AM, Ludo Beckers <<a href="mailto:lazylew@gmail.com">lazylew@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> As far as I can tell all controls are unmuted and with sliders at least<br>
> halfway.<br>
><br>
> In System-Preferences-Sound-Devices all are set "autodetect" except:<br>
> Sound Capture --> ALSA and<br>
> Default Mixer Tracks --> CAO106 'Alsa Mixer)<br>
><br>
> The mouse-over pop up of the Volume Control reads: Analog Center/LFE: 86%.<br>
><br>
> In the volume control (CAO106 Alsa Mixer) there's 2 tabs:<br>
> Playback --> IEC958 Front<br>
> Recording --> Line In _ Microphone<br>
><br>
> In Menu-File (change device) I have:<br>
> - (marked) 0: CAO106 Alsa mixer<br>
> (following ones all unmarked)<br>
> - 1: mixer OO (OSS)<br>
> - 2: Playback: ALSA PCM on front: O (CAO106) via DMA (PulseAudio Mixer)<br>
> - 3: Capture: Monitor Source of ALSA PCM on front: O (CAO106) via DMA<br>
> (PulseAudio Mixer)<br>
> - 4: Capture: ALSA PCM on front: O (CAO106) via DMA (PulseAudio Mixer)<br>
><br>
> In Menu-Preferences "select tracks to be visible these 3 are marked:<br>
> Line In, Microphone and IEC958 Front<br>
> There's a whole bunch there unmarked: phone, IEC958 (variants: Center/LFE,<br>
> Rear, Unknown), Aux, Analog (variants: Center/LFE, Front, Rear, Side,<br>
> Source), Capture Feedback, Digital Source, Shared Mic/Line.<br>
><br>
> That's probably too much info, but I hope the wrong setting is detectable<br>
> here.<br>
> Thanks<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:48 AM, Roger E <<a href="mailto:gurusonic@gmail.com">gurusonic@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Ludo Beckers wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> (Ubuntu Hardy)<br>
>>> Having problems with my new soundcard Audigy (Creative Soundblaster) with<br>
>>> recording through the microphone. Playback for .wav, ogg, etc. works good.<br>
>>> I can't record in Sound Recorder nore Audacity nore use it with Skype.<br>
>>><br>
>>> The Volume Control is a mystery to me because there are too many strange<br>
>>> meaningless names (LFE and "front end" and much more).<br>
>>><br>
>>> I disabled the onboard soundcard in the BIOS, but read something on<br>
>>> Google about disabling the drivers for it too might be a good idea.<br>
>>><br>
>>> How do I find which and where those drivers are? and does it make a<br>
>>> difference uninstalling them?<br>
>>><br>
>> The volume control is probably the answer. In the Input section, make sure<br>
>> Mic and Capture are unmuted with the volume sliders raised.<br>
><br>
><br>
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