Recording sound with PulseAudio from Line-In and Microphone, not working
Would like some help to get sound input to work so that can record from line-in and from microphone using PulseAudio sound server with Gnome Sound Recorder 2.30.0. From installation of Suse 11.3.
Problem recording sound with gnome-sound-recorder 2.30.0. Trying to use both line-in and microphone. Neither shows up as selectable in gnome-sound-recorder. The only choice for device in gnome-sound-recorder is "capture", but it is not recording any sound. Using pulseaudio, and have all installed: Quote:
When connecting a sound source to the line-in of the sound card, get output to the headphone jack. Pulseaudio shows nothing in the meter for pavumeter. Muting volume does not change volume output from line-in to the headphones. Sound output in Banshee is working, and opening a wav file in gnome-sound-recorder gives sound output for the wav file. Code:
LANG=C pactl list | grep -A2 'Source #' | grep 'Name: ' | cut -d " " -f2 Code:
combined.monitor From Pulseaudio Volume Control, the recording tab shows "no application is currently recording audio" but will show gnome-sound-recorder when trying to record from it; configuration is set to "analong stereo duplex". Input devices shows: "monitor of source of simultaneous output to internal audio analog stereo" and "monitor of internal audio analog stereo". Both input devices show no sound coming in while sound is connected to line-in and playing on the headphones. From Pulseaudio FAQ, www.pulseaudio.org, considered audio group 2, which uses HAL and console kit to dynamically give access to currently active user. Code:
cat /proc/modules | grep snd Code:
snd_pcm_oss 47613 0 - Live 0xf7c31000 |
After nearly 30 hours of trying to get line-in and microphone to work with Pulseaudio, I gave up in frustration and sent Pulseaudio to the crapper. It worked for audio output, but failed on audio input. Tried all the settings that I could think of. Tried what pulseaudio web sites said to try. Could have been a simple setting. Really expected sound to work out of the box with Pulseaudio like it did before with alsa.
Went back to alsa. Deleted all Pulseaudio and added alsa and esound for gnome. After 2 hours, it works for line-in. Have not checked microphone yet, but it should be working too. The alsa mixer gui looks like it uses really old graphics. Hasn't it been updated to reflect the newer Linux guis? But now the speaker icon on the gnome panel has disappeared, that used to allow adjusting the sound level. Right clicking the panel to "add to panel" only has a different "volume adjuster" icon that is deprecated and does nothing if you try to add it. How do I get the original gnome volume control icon back? And, there was a problem with the gnome panel volume control icon, it only went up to 100%, which resulted in low volume, and opening the gnome sound utility allowed adjusting the volume up to 150% with amplifier control, and then the gnome panel would show it as 150% with a pop-up and right clicking it would allow you to either mute the sound or edit sound preferences (where you could adjust it up to 150%). I would still like to figure out how to get Pulseaudio to work for sound input with line-in and microphone. Have other Linux users been able to get it to work? It could just be a simple setting that I had wrong. |
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I consider that a plus. I have had trouble with pulse on some computers. I don't consider it ready for prime time. I've never had problems with alsa. There's a difference between cutting edge and over the edge. |
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$ alsamixer Quote:
One bad part about Linux sound, is that the volume levels have always seemed very low compared to the same system with windows. Have not found a solution to this. It seems that the sound driver sound levels are mixed up in Linux. While it is not part of this post, I thought that I'd mention it as PulseAudio is supposed to be the next great thing for sound in Linux. |
How to make microphone work!
The only solution to make microphone work is to install linux-backports-modules-alsa-generic...
Just go to: Menu / System / Administration / Synaptic Package Manager And search and mark for installation: linux-backports-modules-alsa-generic tip: if you have multiple versions click on the first and read the description which should inform what name to install... If after the reboot and mic mute is off, still does not work, just go to terminal and type: sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and add or change the following: options snd-hda-intel model=auto enable=yes Then Ctrl+X, type Y to write and exit, reboot and mic will work. Bye and have lots of fun with Ubuntu (the best). |
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