Audacity volume controls don't work in Lenny

Zelator · 02-16-2009, 10:12 PM

I have installed Lenny, with both Gnome and KDE (actually using KDE), on the same machine as a KDE only Etch. Audacity, which worked well on Etch, has problems, principally that the volume controls - record and playback - have no effect. I can control the playback volume with Kmix, but nothing seems to affect the record volume. There is no bug for this, so I assume I am missing something. Any ideas? Moving the microphone about kind of works, but I would prefer a proper solution.

AwesomeMachine · 02-17-2009, 10:35 AM

Try alsamixer, and make the adjustment global.

AwesomeMachine · 02-17-2009, 10:35 AM

Try alsamixer, and make the adjustment global.

Zelator · 03-12-2009, 02:13 AM

Alsamixer seems to do the same as Kmix etc, and does not fix the problem, even though it seemed to think the mic was muted so I un-muted it. But what do you mean by "make the adjustment global"?

Zelator · 07-15-2009, 12:26 AM

It would appear that Audacity, while part of the Debian distro, is not actually supported by Debian, so short of installing an out-of-distro version I will just have to put up with it. I have reinstalled Debian as KDE only, but nothing has changed.