27 Feb
2006
27 Feb
'06
9:28 p.m.
Hi there,
I see there are a few people here who have a Griffin iMic, and are
using it successfully. I bought one a few months ago, and have tried
several distros & kernel versions, but have never been able to get it
to work
Current machine is running latest Ubuntu, with kernel 2.6.12-10-386,
alsa-utils version 1.0.9a-4ubuntu5. uhci_hcd recognizes the card &
snd_usb_audio is automatically loaded.
If I open the Gnome Sound Recorder, I can select the device "iMic USB
Audio System (Alsa Mixer)" under Run Mixer->File->Change Device, turn
up the volume, and hit "Record", but the resulting file is silent
I've also tried "arecord -Dplughw:0,1 -f cd -t wav test.wav" &
audacity using /dev/dsp1 as the recording device, again, the files are
silent
I have verified that there is sound going into the iMic, & just to be
sure, tried both jacks/switch positions on the iMic itself. I'm
beginning to think the thing is a dud, but am hoping someone can point
out something I am doing wrong
Oh, I have never been able to get sound from the builtin mic jack
either.. the audio controller is Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW
(ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
Thanks!
Kenneth
27 Feb
27 Feb
9:36 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Re: Griffin iMic
On 2/28/06, Kenneth Dombrowski <kdombrowski(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi there,
I see there are a few people here who have a Griffin iMic, and are
using it successfully. I bought one a few months ago, and have tried
several distros & kernel versions, but have never been able to get it
to work
Current machine is running latest Ubuntu, with kernel 2.6.12-10-386,
alsa-utils version 1.0.9a-4ubuntu5. uhci_hcd recognizes the card &
snd_usb_audio is automatically loaded.
If I open the Gnome Sound Recorder, I can select the device "iMic USB
Audio System (Alsa Mixer)" under Run Mixer->File->Change Device, turn
up the volume, and hit "Record", but the resulting file is silent
I've also tried "arecord -Dplughw:0,1 -f cd -t wav test.wav" &
audacity using /dev/dsp1 as the recording device, again, the files are
silent
I have verified that there is sound going into the iMic, & just to be
sure, tried both jacks/switch positions on the iMic itself. I'm
beginning to think the thing is a dud, but am hoping someone can point
out something I am doing wrong
Oh, I have never been able to get sound from the builtin mic jack
either.. the audio controller is Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW
(ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
Thanks!
Kenneth
have you got sound out of the imic? Have you got levels right? use
alsamixer to check. Is the audio module loaded? If so kill it, then
burn/maim it. OSS module, shouldn't be loaded. I've used it on a bunch
of different machines with many different kernels. I'm running
2.6.12-12.mm.2mdk here, though x86_64. The griffin does sound great
when you get it working. Well, compared to my SB live the thing sounds
wonderful. ;-)
Loki
10:28 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Re: Griffin iMic
On 2/27/06, Loki Davison <loki.davison(a)gmail.com> wrote:
have you got sound out of the imic? Have you got levels right? use
alsamixer to check. Is the audio module loaded? If so kill it, then
burn/maim it. OSS module, shouldn't be loaded. I've used it on a bunch
of different machines with many different kernels. I'm running
2.6.12-12.mm.2mdk here, though x86_64. The griffin does sound great
when you get it working. Well, compared to my SB live the thing sounds
wonderful. ;-)
Hi Loki,
Thanks for the quick reply!
"Sound out of the iMic"... do you mean bypassing the USB port? should
I be able to test the mic input using the phones output? (I'm not in
front of it @ the moment, but I had the impression it was either
mic-to-USB, or USB-to-phones)
everything that can be turned up in alsamixer is turned up. I never
have had very good luck messing with alsa though; and was mostly
trusting that to this freshly-installed ubuntu :^(
I think the snd_*_oss modules are alsa's oss-compatibility thing, not
oss itself?
kenneth@scivola:~$ lsmod | egrep 'audio|oss'
snd_usb_audio 68160 0
snd_usb_lib 13824 1 snd_usb_audio
snd_hwdep 8608 1 snd_usb_audio
snd_pcm_oss 46368 0
snd_mixer_oss 16128 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 78344 4
snd_usb_audio,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd 48644 12
snd_usb_audio,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_hwdep,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
usbcore 104316 8
snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,usbvision,hci_usb,usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
kenneth@scivola:~$ egrep 'AUDIO|OSS' /boot/config-`uname -r`
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_OSST=m
CONFIG_ISDN_AUDIO=y
CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=y
CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=m
CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=m
CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER_OSS=y
CONFIG_SND_USB_AUDIO=m
CONFIG_SND_PDAUDIOCF=m
CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m
CONFIG_USB_AUDIO=m
There is an instance of esd running, might that get in the way too?
The sound is a little funny in other ways, w/XMMS for instance, the
GUI volume slider doesn't have an effect; nor does the PCM slider in
aumix, I have used aumix's Volume to adjust it. Also, when I open
audacity from the menu, the Gnome desktop makes a silly little noise &
causes audacity to not be able to initialize the appropriate device
I found an ubuntuforums howto called "Happy ALSA, OSS, ESD, with
Duplex - Sound Settings", I'll try going through that this evening
Thanks again,
Kenneth
28 Feb
28 Feb
8:26 a.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Re: Griffin iMic
On 2/28/06, Kenneth Dombrowski <kdombrowski(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/27/06, Loki Davison
<loki.davison(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I mean for instance if you play an mp3 with xmms out of the imic is
everything okay. I.e playback, not recording ;-)
have you got sound out of the imic? Have you got levels right? use
alsamixer to check. Is the audio module loaded? If so kill it, then
burn/maim it. OSS module, shouldn't be loaded. I've used it on a bunch
of different machines with many different kernels. I'm running
2.6.12-12.mm.2mdk here, though x86_64. The griffin does sound great
when you get it working. Well, compared to my SB live the thing sounds
wonderful. ;-)
Hi Loki,
Thanks for the quick reply!
"Sound out of the iMic"... do you mean bypassing the USB port? should
I be able to test the mic input using the phones output? (I'm not in
front of it @ the moment, but I had the impression it was either
mic-to-USB, or USB-to-phones)
1 Mar
1 Mar
12:10 a.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Re: Griffin iMic
On 2/28/06, Loki Davison <loki.davison(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I mean for instance if you play an mp3 with xmms out of the imic is
everything okay. I.e playback, not recording ;-)
oh, of course.. obviously a little brain-dead over here...
well, if I make the iMic the default sound card, it *does* work for
the silly gnome sounds (esd?), but xmms still uses the built-in
speakers. Looks more like the howto I mentioned yesterday is the way
to go.. was too tired last night & will probably flake on it tonight
too, but I'll post the results soon. Thanks for giving me some hope
that the thing isn't just a dud piece of crap
12:31 a.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Re: Griffin iMic
On 3/1/06, Kenneth Dombrowski <kdombrowski(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/28/06, Loki Davison
<loki.davison(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If out works in will work too, eventually. Kill, maim destroy esd and
arts, and any of there other evil elk. Kill. Maim. DESTROY. Then which
output xmms is using, try the alsa plugin, it has a pretty drop down
box. For recording try out jack and timemachine or qarecord, but get
out working properly before worrying about in. Then try just routing
in to out with jack and see if you can here anything. The guys on lad
irc can probably help. Though avoid the one called LFactor. He's
strange. ;-)
Loki
I mean for instance if you play an mp3 with xmms out of the imic is
everything okay. I.e playback, not recording ;-)
oh, of course.. obviously a little brain-dead over here...
well, if I make the iMic the default sound card, it *does* work for
the silly gnome sounds (esd?), but xmms still uses the built-in
speakers. Looks more like the howto I mentioned yesterday is the way
to go.. was too tired last night & will probably flake on it tonight
too, but I'll post the results soon. Thanks for giving me some hope
that the thing isn't just a dud piece of crap
3 Mar
3 Mar
2:29 a.m.
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 12:27, Kenneth Dombrowski wrote:
Hi there,
I see there are a few people here who have a Griffin iMic, and are
using it successfully. I bought one a few months ago, and have
tried several distros & kernel versions, but have never been able
to get it to work
I found I had to go into the mixer, and set the volume levels on
everything down a tiny amount from 100% to get record to work. Then
it's fine.
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