[linux-audio-user] Devices in Audacity

[John Ouzts]

>John Ouzts wrote:
>> I just did a fresh Gentoo 1.4 install in a new machine with an RME 96/8 PAD 
>> card, which uses the rme96 driver. System sounds now come to my hifi system 
>> through the rme card, so I think the driver is loading and working.  
> >
> >I cannot get Audacity or Ardour to record, however. Audacity works fine in  
>>the 
> >same machine when using the monopolist's operating system, however. Running 
> >on that partition, Audacity finds 11 or 12 sound devices, the 8 RME 
>>channels 
> >and the builtin VIA sound chip devices. Under Linux, Audacity only finds 
> >/dev/dsp, and sometimes not that. 
> >
> >How do I get Audacity to see other devices, or is that my problem?
> >
> >John
> >
>
>This seems like a simple(tm) setup problem.
>
>Can you send us the output of...
>
>lsmod; cat /proc/asound/cards
>
>That will give us an overview of your setup.

Thanks Patrick, here's what you asked for:

Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
snd-pcm-oss            39300   0  (autoclean)
snd-mixer-oss          13624   2  (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-via82xx             9356   0 
snd-ac97-codec         31044   0  [snd-via82xx]
snd-mpu401-uart         3840   0  [snd-via82xx]
snd-rawmidi            15584   0  [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device          4416   0  [snd-rawmidi]
snd-rme96              16396   2 
snd-pcm                67936   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-via82xx snd-rme96]
snd-timer              12840   0  [snd-pcm]
snd                    31852   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-via82xx 
snd-ac97-codec snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-rme96 snd-pcm 
snd-timer]
soundcore               3940   7  [snd]
ntfs                   71148   2  (autoclean)
8139too                14728   1 
sr_mod                 12184   0  (unused)
sg                     26124   0  (unused)
ide-scsi                7600   0 

0 [PAD            ]: Digi96 - RME Digi96/8 PAD
                     RME Digi96/8 PAD at 0xdd000000, irq 19
1 [8233AC         ]: VIA8233 - VIA 8233A/C
                     VIA 8233A/C at 0xe400, irq 10

I have also discovered that kmix appears as a gray window without any sliders 
or labels. Alsamixer shows one slider labelled DAC, which will adjust. I also 
got an error message with says: Mixer device /dev/mixer is missing volume and 
PCM controls.

Gentoo uses devfsd, so I am wondering if I need to set some devices in 
devfsd.conf.

Thanks again, John