Re: [SLE] Why is this so DA*N difficult?!?

Joost van der Lugt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.general,gmane.linux.suse.multimedia
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* Peter B Van Campen <[email protected]> [Dec 08. 2002 04:06]:
> Dear Marshall,
> 
> I've tried  Gramofile, KRecord and wavrec on my 8.1 sys withh a Creative SB 
> Live! 5+1 to no avail. They all seem t9o think /dev/dsp is busy or 
> non-existant. I have audio coming in to the 'line-in' jack and I hear it on 
> line- out; I can control it with KMix. The recording apps cannot find 
> /dev/dsp. 
> Perhaps one of the more MultiMedia savy types will lend a hand?

I have had no problem with gramofile, but for some reason have used
`xmix` with it only. Of course anything else should not be using the
soundcard. xmix let's you choose the source in a simple manner (line-
mic or cd).

> 
> PeterB
> On Saturday 07 December 2002 03:50 pm, Marshall Heartley wrote:
> > > Are you using KDE?
> >
> > Yes but it doesn't matter if you are referring to the arts server
> > If so go to KDE Main menu select "Multimedia" and go down
> >
> > > the list to KMix, click it and look to see where all the volume sliders
> > > are; ry them out. If this does not help write back and we'll look a
> > > little deeper.
> >
> > They are OK.  I can hear the audio that I want to record from my audio
> > speakers
> >
> >  Things to check:
> > > Does this sys make the KDE event sounds? Yes
> > > Can you play an audio CD? Yes
> > > Are the cables and plugs clean and reliably connected? Yes
> > > To the right places? Yes
> > > Have you read the Gramaphone documentation? What little of it there is.
> >
> >  That is where I got the text that when you select mixer in the program,
> > it wants to run xmixer that SuSE does not package.
> >
> > > Just basic stuff for sure but youknow that it is usually something very
> > > simple that solves most problems! So true!
> >
> > I also tried with arts running to use the artsdsp to tell gramofile to
> > use the arts server and that did not seem to help.
> >
> > > PeterB
> 
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