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SBLive! Mic recording solved.

August 18th, 2006

Found it! AC97 needs to be turned on. I missed in the graphical mixer due to preference settings.

Mind you, most SBLive! controls are still mysterious.

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SBLive! Value + Alsa = no mic recording

August 16th, 2006

Urgh. Used to work, now it doesn’t. Hail to the penguin.

Microphone plugged into SBLive! card. Turn microphone on. Use Gnome audio mixer to turn mic on. Can hear my own voice amplified over the speakers. Now try to record using Rosegarden, Ardour, or Audacity. Foggedaboudit.

Possible answer?

• http://forum.skype.com/viewtopic.php?t=4174

Another handy link:

• http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=SBliveMixerControls

And maybe:

• http://alsa.opensrc.org/Record+from+mic
• http://alsa2.opensrc.org/Emu10k1
• http://alive.singnet.com.sg/
• http://folk.uio.no/haakoh/emu10k1/
• http://www.euronet.nl/~mailme/

Anyway, here I was thinking that ALSA drivers are well-documented things. Turns out most of the cards are reverse-engineered, so even though the Alsa mixer controls have names, their meaning is not always clear…

Will try tomorrow.