Excuse me for the repost, I messed up the subject line. Must have had a
senior moment.
Vaughn
Vaughn Treude wrote:
> I'll continue in the sound-related vein.
> I've got Centos 4.4 on my Sony Vaio notebook. I'm try to record analog
> audio from the microphone jack. The program that came with this distro,
> gnome-sound-recorder version 2.8.0, is the buggiest Linux program I've
> seen in a long time. The time slider doesn't move, it won't show any
> information (channels, etc.) about the file, and I can't save the file
> once it's recorded. It doesn't seem to allow me to record in WAV
> format, rather than FLAC, whatever that is. Worse still, after I
> fiddled with it for about 15 minutes, it suddenly STOPPED recording and
> now records only silence. It may have been because I was messing with
> the mixer settings; does anyone know how to set them back to the default
> value?
> Another odd symptom: the sound, as piped in from the microphone and out
> through the headphone jack, now sounds distorted, and yet I've backed
> off all the levels, and everything on the mixer looks reasonable. And I
> have brought the computer completely down and back up. I wonder if I
> may have somehow damaged the hardware. The input, which I was using
> just for test purposes, was from the headphone jack of a portable music
> player, so I wouldn't expect it to have caused problems.
> After this I tried the command-line "arecord" program and it won't
> record anything either, probably because I've completely hosed my mixer
> settings.
> Once again, how does a person reset the mixer? And can anyone recommend
> a better program?
> Thanks!
> Vaughn Treude
>
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