[ltp] Q further: sound recording, A21m, Caldera 2.4

[Richard Neill]

An idea - have you got the "Mic Boost" turned on?
This is an option that appears in alsamixer/alsamixergui, but not in 
things such as aumix. You need to be running alsa. it gives a 20dB 
increase in mic sensitivity.

Also, are you using the internal mic or an external one?
[My A22's internal mic never worked - I think a hardware fault]
Have you tried recording from "line in" ?

Richard




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.
> 
> 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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