4 Dec
2008
4 Dec
'08
6:19 p.m.
(Ubuntu Hardy)
Having problems with my new soundcard Audigy (Creative Soundblaster) with
recording through the microphone. Playback for .wav, ogg, etc. works good.
I can't record in Sound Recorder nore Audacity nore use it with Skype.
The Volume Control is a mystery to me because there are too many strange
meaningless names (LFE and "front end" and much more).
I disabled the onboard soundcard in the BIOS, but read something on Google
about disabling the drivers for it too might be a good idea.
How do I find which and where those drivers are? and does it make a
difference uninstalling them?
4 Dec
4 Dec
9:48 p.m.
Ludo Beckers wrote:
(Ubuntu Hardy)
Having problems with my new soundcard Audigy (Creative Soundblaster)
with recording through the microphone. Playback for .wav, ogg, etc.
works good.
I can't record in Sound Recorder nore Audacity nore use it with Skype.
The Volume Control is a mystery to me because there are too many
strange meaningless names (LFE and "front end" and much more).
I disabled the onboard soundcard in the BIOS, but read something on
Google about disabling the drivers for it too might be a good idea.
How do I find which and where those drivers are? and does it make a
difference uninstalling them?
The volume control is probably the answer. In the Input section, make
sure Mic and Capture are unmuted with the volume sliders raised.
5 Dec
5 Dec
1:51 a.m.
Roger E wrote:
Ludo Beckers wrote:
> (Ubuntu Hardy)
> Having problems with my new soundcard Audigy (Creative Soundblaster)
> with recording through the microphone. Playback for .wav, ogg, etc.
> works good.
> I can't record in Sound Recorder nore Audacity nore use it with Skype.
>
> The Volume Control is a mystery to me because there are too many
> strange meaningless names (LFE and "front end" and much more).
SB live and audigy (AFAIK those are fairly similar in this regard,
only have experience with SB live) have horribly complicated and
undocumented mixers, you essentially never know what are they doing,
seems like everything changes everythings,
searching the net provides some answers but theer's still lot of
playing around and trying involved,
LFE is low frequency e?, i.e. subwoofer,
Master only controls front speakers (plus center, don't remember),
PCM: seems to control front speakers
Surround: rear speakers (but does nothing)
Center: is center (but does nothing)
Synth: onboard synth (midi)
Wave, WaveCenter, Wave LFE, Wave Surround: essentially same as the
ones without Wave in the name but different, they actually change volume
SB Live Analog/Digital Output Jack: switches between digital and
analog output (off for analog?)
Sigmatel 4-Speaker Stereo: not sure what this means exactly, it
changes what other controls do a bit, probably changes the card from
being 5.1 channel to be essentially 2 channel then splitting that into 4
channels for output
Sigmatel Surround: not sure what this does
The above of course depends on million other things, how you define
your alsa device etc.
Ignore if audugy is actually significantly different :-)
> I disabled the onboard soundcard in the BIOS, but
read something on
> Google about disabling the drivers for it too might be a good idea.
>
> How do I find which and where those drivers are? and does it make a
> difference uninstalling them?
two options - if they are build into kernel you need to rebuild
kernel (unlikely with modern distros), otherwise just ignore, they will
most likely not be loaded (because the card is not there, it's just like
for 100s other cards that are not there), you can use lsmod to figure
out which modules are loaded,
erik
5:28 a.m.
Erik Steffl wrote:
Roger E wrote:
Hmmm, on my server box, which has some onboard sound card built in and
another PCI-based soundcard I added to it, I disabled the onboard sound
in the BIOS - but Linux still finds it and installs the ALSA driver for
it. (One of the reasons why I haven't got sound working on the server, I
think.) I've been told by someone else that Linux doesn't pay attention
to the BIOS once it begins to boot, but what do I know?
--
David
gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com
authenticity, honesty, community
Ludo Beckers wrote:
> (Ubuntu Hardy)
> Having problems with my new soundcard Audigy (Creative Soundblaster)
> with recording through the microphone. Playback for .wav, ogg, etc.
> works good.
> I can't record in Sound Recorder nore Audacity nore use it with Skype.
>
> The Volume Control is a mystery to me because there are too many
> strange meaningless names (LFE and "front end" and much more).
SB live and audigy (AFAIK those are fairly similar in this regard,
only have experience with SB live) have horribly complicated and
undocumented mixers, you essentially never know what are they doing,
seems like everything changes everythings,
searching the net provides some answers but theer's still lot of
playing around and trying involved,
LFE is low frequency e?, i.e. subwoofer,
Master only controls front speakers (plus center, don't remember),
PCM: seems to control front speakers
Surround: rear speakers (but does nothing)
Center: is center (but does nothing)
Synth: onboard synth (midi)
Wave, WaveCenter, Wave LFE, Wave Surround: essentially same as the
ones without Wave in the name but different, they actually change volume
SB Live Analog/Digital Output Jack: switches between digital and
analog output (off for analog?)
Sigmatel 4-Speaker Stereo: not sure what this means exactly, it
changes what other controls do a bit, probably changes the card from
being 5.1 channel to be essentially 2 channel then splitting that into 4
channels for output
Sigmatel Surround: not sure what this does
The above of course depends on million other things, how you define
your alsa device etc.
Ignore if audugy is actually significantly different :-)
> I disabled the onboard soundcard in the BIOS,
but read something on
> Google about disabling the drivers for it too might be a good idea.
>
> How do I find which and where those drivers are? and does it make a
> difference uninstalling them?
two options - if they are build into kernel you need to rebuild
kernel (unlikely with modern distros), otherwise just ignore, they will
most likely not be loaded (because the card is not there, it's just like
for 100s other cards that are not there), you can use lsmod to figure
out which modules are loaded,
7:46 a.m.
As far as I can tell all controls are unmuted and with sliders at least
halfway.
In System-Preferences-Sound-Devices all are set "autodetect" except:
Sound Capture --> ALSA and
Default Mixer Tracks --> CAO106 'Alsa Mixer)
The mouse-over pop up of the Volume Control reads: Analog Center/LFE: 86%.
In the volume control (CAO106 Alsa Mixer) there's 2 tabs:
Playback --> IEC958 Front
Recording --> Line In _ Microphone
In Menu-File (change device) I have:
- (marked) 0: CAO106 Alsa mixer
(following ones all unmarked)
- 1: mixer OO (OSS)
- 2: Playback: ALSA PCM on front: O (CAO106) via DMA (PulseAudio Mixer)
- 3: Capture: Monitor Source of ALSA PCM on front: O (CAO106) via DMA
(PulseAudio Mixer)
- 4: Capture: ALSA PCM on front: O (CAO106) via DMA (PulseAudio Mixer)
In Menu-Preferences "select tracks to be visible these 3 are marked:
Line In, Microphone and IEC958 Front
There's a whole bunch there unmarked: phone, IEC958 (variants: Center/LFE,
Rear, Unknown), Aux, Analog (variants: Center/LFE, Front, Rear, Side,
Source), Capture Feedback, Digital Source, Shared Mic/Line.
That's probably too much info, but I hope the wrong setting is detectable
here.
Thanks
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:48 AM, Roger E <gurusonic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Ludo Beckers wrote:
(Ubuntu Hardy)
Having problems with my new soundcard Audigy (Creative Soundblaster) with
recording through the microphone. Playback for .wav, ogg, etc. works good.
I can't record in Sound Recorder nore Audacity nore use it with Skype.
The Volume Control is a mystery to me because there are too many strange
meaningless names (LFE and "front end" and much more).
I disabled the onboard soundcard in the BIOS, but read something on Google
about disabling the drivers for it too might be a good idea.
How do I find which and where those drivers are? and does it make a
difference uninstalling them?
The volume control is probably the answer. In the Input section, make
sure Mic
and Capture are unmuted with the volume sliders raised.
6 Dec
6 Dec
1:19 a.m.
Please post the output of "amixer".
Lee
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 6:46 AM, Ludo Beckers <lazylew(a)gmail.com> wrote:
As far as I can tell all controls are unmuted and with
sliders at least
halfway.
In System-Preferences-Sound-Devices all are set "autodetect" except:
Sound Capture --> ALSA and
Default Mixer Tracks --> CAO106 'Alsa Mixer)
The mouse-over pop up of the Volume Control reads: Analog Center/LFE: 86%.
In the volume control (CAO106 Alsa Mixer) there's 2 tabs:
Playback --> IEC958 Front
Recording --> Line In _ Microphone
In Menu-File (change device) I have:
- (marked) 0: CAO106 Alsa mixer
(following ones all unmarked)
- 1: mixer OO (OSS)
- 2: Playback: ALSA PCM on front: O (CAO106) via DMA (PulseAudio Mixer)
- 3: Capture: Monitor Source of ALSA PCM on front: O (CAO106) via DMA
(PulseAudio Mixer)
- 4: Capture: ALSA PCM on front: O (CAO106) via DMA (PulseAudio Mixer)
In Menu-Preferences "select tracks to be visible these 3 are marked:
Line In, Microphone and IEC958 Front
There's a whole bunch there unmarked: phone, IEC958 (variants: Center/LFE,
Rear, Unknown), Aux, Analog (variants: Center/LFE, Front, Rear, Side,
Source), Capture Feedback, Digital Source, Shared Mic/Line.
That's probably too much info, but I hope the wrong setting is detectable
here.
Thanks
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:48 AM, Roger E <gurusonic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Ludo Beckers wrote:
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Having problems with my new soundcard Audigy (Creative Soundblaster) with
recording through the microphone. Playback for .wav, ogg, etc. works good.
I can't record in Sound Recorder nore Audacity nore use it with Skype.
The Volume Control is a mystery to me because there are too many strange
meaningless names (LFE and "front end" and much more).
I disabled the onboard soundcard in the BIOS, but read something on
Google about disabling the drivers for it too might be a good idea.
How do I find which and where those drivers are? and does it make a
difference uninstalling them?
The volume control is probably the answer. In the Input section, make sure
Mic and Capture are unmuted with the volume sliders raised.
8:34 a.m.
I've been messing around a bit (2 much?)... first on advice I installed
paconfig.deb
which resulted in not having sound anymore :-(
so, other advice I followed:
sudo apt-get install padevchooser
then alt-F2 to run padevchooser
which didn't help at all, so I tried to undo it by:
pulseaudio -k
this gave this output:
E: main.c: Failed to kill daemon.
so here's the output of the present amixer:
Simple mixer control 'Line in',0
Capabilities: cvolume
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Capture 0 - 255
Front Left: Capture 207 [81%] [0.00dB]
Front Right: Capture 207 [81%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
Capabilities: cvolume
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Capture 0 - 255
Front Left: Capture 183 [72%] [-12.00dB]
Front Right: Capture 183 [72%] [-12.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Phone',0
Capabilities: cvolume
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Capture 0 - 255
Front Left: Capture 207 [81%] [0.00dB]
Front Right: Capture 207 [81%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Center/LFE',0
Capabilities: pvolume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 255
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Front',0
Capabilities: pvolume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 255
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 202 [79%] [-1.25dB]
Front Right: Playback 202 [79%] [-1.25dB]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Rear',0
Capabilities: pvolume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 255
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Unknown',0
Capabilities: pvolume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 255
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
Simple mixer control 'Aux',0
Capabilities: cvolume
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Capture 0 - 255
Front Left: Capture 207 [81%] [0.00dB]
Front Right: Capture 207 [81%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Analog Center/LFE',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 255
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 204 [80%] [0.75dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 204 [80%] [0.75dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Analog Front',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 255
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 204 [80%] [0.75dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 204 [80%] [0.75dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Analog Rear',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 255
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Analog Side',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 255
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Analog Source',0
Capabilities: cenum
Items: 'Phone' 'Mic' 'Line in' 'Aux'
Item0: 'Line in'
Simple mixer control 'CAPTURE feedback',0
Capabilities: pvolume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 255
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
Simple mixer control 'Digital Source',0
Capabilities: cenum
Items: 'IEC958 out' 'i2s mixer out' 'IEC958 in' 'i2s in'
'AC97 in' 'SRC
out'
Item0: 'i2s in'
Simple mixer control 'Shared Mic/Line in',0
Capabilities: cenum
Items: 'Line in' 'Mic in'
Item0: 'Line in'
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 6:19 AM, Lee Revell <rlrevell(a)joe-job.com> wrote:
Please post the output of "amixer".
Lee
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 6:46 AM, Ludo Beckers <lazylew(a)gmail.com> wrote:
As far as I can tell all controls are unmuted and
with sliders at least
halfway.
In System-Preferences-Sound-Devices all are set "autodetect" except:
Sound Capture --> ALSA and
Default Mixer Tracks --> CAO106 'Alsa Mixer)
The mouse-over pop up of the Volume Control reads: Analog Center/LFE:
86%.
In the volume control (CAO106 Alsa Mixer) there's 2 tabs:
Playback --> IEC958 Front
Recording --> Line In _ Microphone
In Menu-File (change device) I have:
- (marked) 0: CAO106 Alsa mixer
(following ones all unmarked)
- 1: mixer OO (OSS)
- 2: Playback: ALSA PCM on front: O (CAO106) via DMA (PulseAudio Mixer)
- 3: Capture: Monitor Source of ALSA PCM on front: O (CAO106) via DMA
(PulseAudio Mixer)
- 4: Capture: ALSA PCM on front: O (CAO106) via DMA (PulseAudio Mixer)
In Menu-Preferences "select tracks to be visible these 3 are marked:
Line In, Microphone and IEC958 Front
There's a whole bunch there unmarked: phone, IEC958 (variants:
Center/LFE,
Rear, Unknown), Aux, Analog (variants:
Center/LFE, Front, Rear, Side,
Source), Capture Feedback, Digital Source, Shared Mic/Line.
That's probably too much info, but I hope the wrong setting is detectable
here.
Thanks
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:48 AM, Roger E <gurusonic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Ludo Beckers wrote:
>>
>> (Ubuntu Hardy)
>> Having problems with my new soundcard Audigy (Creative Soundblaster)
with
>> recording through the microphone.
Playback for .wav, ogg, etc. works
good.
>> I can't record in Sound Recorder nore
Audacity nore use it with Skype.
>>
>> The Volume Control is a mystery to me because there are too many
strange
>> meaningless names (LFE and "front
end" and much more).
>>
>> I disabled the onboard soundcard in the BIOS, but read something on
>> Google about disabling the drivers for it too might be a good idea.
>>
>> How do I find which and where those drivers are? and does it make a
>> difference uninstalling them?
>>
> The volume control is probably the answer. In the Input section, make
sure
Mic and
Capture are unmuted with the volume sliders raised.
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