[linux-audio-user] Re: Audio Help...

Hi Patrick I'm just having a heck of a time getting all my things in order here. Any help you can provide would really be appreciated. Here's what I have: System: Redhat 8 / Kernel 2.4.19-1.ll PIII 800 / 512MB RAM / 60GB SBLive Value PCI Kernel 2.4.19-1.ll alsa (alsaplayer alsamixer amixer etc) jack ecasound (and ecawave) audacity rosegarden muse meterbridge qjackconnect I have followed the jack and ecasound documents, and successfully set up a scenario like this to test: alsaplayer -o jack -> meterbridge -> alsa pcm out ... and it works. = ) (these are not the exact commands issued) I have also done this: ecasound -i:somewave -o jack -> and that works too. I've come to the conclusion that all these audio apps should be run as root in order for them to play together ... so that's what I do. I realize they could be suid etc. My problem is: I CANT RECORD = ( In alsamixer, with the Line set to CAPTURE, I set up the following: ecasound -i:jack -o:somewave -> it launches without error, and records to a wav file. qJackconnect reflects the proper routing connections. But the wav is dead air... silence for as long as I record. OK so I thought I might have missed something with the whole jack setup so I kill jack and try it with ARecord then again with Audacity. Same story. Silence. ---DUAL CAPTURE REQUIRED? Weird. OK now I notice a "capture" item in alsamixer. So I simultaneously hilight LINE and CAPTURE to do capturing. With the LINE muted, audio is still monitored (it shouldn't be) unless I de-select the CAPTURE item from capturing, but then it won't record. Hope that made sense. So I give it a go... ignoring the "I can't mute it" problem. arecord still silent, same with the jack setup. But now Audacity records ... and it's garbled (sounds like playing a 32bit file at 16bit or something, plus it's not a fluid recording). And I see that when you record in Audacity, it forces 32-bit float for the format. I think maybe if I could convince Audacity to operate strictly in 16-bit, it might work.

I've tried also to capture CD Audio in the same fashion. I've seen claims of the same problem dating back to 2000 at geocrawler etc... but no info to fix it? The card's capture functions work in a windoz box. What would you suggest? I'm at a loss. Thanks in advance, -Ryan Beisner ps. System is tuned nicely. Jack looks like this when it's running: load = 0.3496 max usecs: 43.216, spare = 11565.784 load = 0.4025 max usecs: 52.861, spare = 11556.139 load = 0.3142 max usecs: 26.222, spare = 11582.777 load = 0.2733 max usecs: 26.975, spare = 11582.025 load = 0.2133 max usecs: 17.801, spare = 11591.199 load = 0.1753 max usecs: 15.932, spare = 11593.067 load = 0.1941 max usecs: 24.719, spare = 11584.281 load = 0.1540 max usecs: 13.230, spare = 11595.770 load = 0.1292 max usecs: 12.119, spare = 11596.881 load = 0.2109 max usecs: 33.976, spare = 11575.023 load = 0.2310 max usecs: 29.149, spare = 11579.852