[ltp] Q further: sound recording, A21m, Caldera 2.4
William Lueders
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 20 Jan 2004 23:24:25 -0600
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At 02:42 PM 1/20/2004, Robert Hueckstedt wrote:
>Thanks to all for telling this newbie that in order to record I needed to
>turn the microphone on (:-).
>
>Unfortunately, no matter what I do, I seem not to be able to do that.
>Something is not communicating with something.
Is the Microphone powered? IBM requires a powered microphone to
work. That is it needs a battery or some connection to power. Check the
specs and see if this is still true of the "A" series. There used to be a
separate "power supply" thingie that you could put in the line between the
mic and the thinkpad. Someone else on the list may know something about
this and guide you to where it might be purchased.
>What I have done so far is this:
>
>I used KMix (in KDE) and GMix (in Gnome) to set, one by one, all the
>possible recording sources on this machine. Those recording devices are
>Volume, Line, Microphone (which I assume is the built-in one), CD, Line 1,
>Line 2, Phone In, and Video. One by one, with KMix (GMix) still "on", I
>then try the microphone I have plugged into the microphone jack. With
>Krecord, or Gnome's Sound Recorder, I then "record" a brief statement and
>try to play it back. No sound. I then checked the Krecord capability to
>play a wave file, and that worked fine. So, it can do that. I just can't
>seem to get it to record.
>
>The only difference I noticed between Gnome's Sound Recorder and KDE's
>Krecord is that the former uses sox. I don't know what the other uses in
>sox's place, and I don't know what "sox" are anyway. And in any event,
>sound remained unrecorded no matter which GUI or recording app I tried.
>
>I suspect there is an easy answer to this. Something else that needs to be
>"turned on"?
>
>The KDE on this machine is 1.1.2. KMix is 1.0.1. Krecord is 1.5.
>
>Grateful for any help.
>Bob Hueckstedt
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<font size=3>At 02:42 PM 1/20/2004, Robert Hueckstedt wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Thanks to all for telling this
newbie that in order to record I needed to turn the microphone on (:-).
<br><br>
Unfortunately, no matter what I do, I seem not to be able to do that.
Something is not communicating with something.</font></blockquote><br>
Is the Microphone powered? IBM requires a powered microphone to
work. That is it needs a battery or some connection to power.
Check the specs and see if this is still true of the "A"
series. There used to be a separate "power supply"
thingie that you could put in the line between the mic and the
thinkpad. Someone else on the list may know something about this
and guide you to where it might be purchased.<br><br>
<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font size=3>What I have done so
far is this:<br><br>
I used KMix (in KDE) and GMix (in Gnome) to set, one by one, all the
possible recording sources on this machine. Those recording devices are
Volume, Line, Microphone (which I assume is the built-in one), CD, Line
1, Line 2, Phone In, and Video. One by one, with KMix (GMix) still
"on", I then try the microphone I have plugged into the
microphone jack. With Krecord, or Gnome's Sound Recorder, I then
"record" a brief statement and try to play it back. No sound. I
then checked the Krecord capability to play a wave file, and that worked
fine. So, it can do that. I just can't seem to get it to record.
<br><br>
The only difference I noticed between Gnome's Sound Recorder and KDE's
Krecord is that the former uses sox. I don't know what the other uses in
sox's place, and I don't know what "sox" are anyway. And in any
event, sound remained unrecorded no matter which GUI or recording app I
tried. <br><br>
I suspect there is an easy answer to this. Something else that needs to
be "turned on"?<br><br>
The KDE on this machine is 1.1.2. KMix is 1.0.1. Krecord is
1.5.<br><br>
Grateful for any help.<br>
Bob Hueckstedt<br>
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