I cannot get my sound to work correctly. System sounds work. I can play mp3's with Kaboodle. My problem is that I cannot get line-in to work. I have a cassette player attached to my line in, and try to record using Audacity. Audacity gets no input and nothing is sent to the speakers. Any ideas as to what could be wrong?

I am a newbie, so if I need to post something from a file to give you more info, let me know.

Roger

you prob need to set the device

you have to enable it as a capture device in the mixer

OK. I am a REAL newbie. I need instrucions as to how to do the above. I did open the mixer(I am running Debian and KDE), and checked the 'record' checkbox. But, this action did not solve my problem...

run from a terminal:

kmix

under the input tab the first one on the left is your line-input. Make sure the green like is on and the volume is up...

KC

Yes, but you prob need to tell it where to record from. Open the mixer and set the device

kencaz,

OK. Green light is on. Sliders are up. Still no line in through to speakers.

bosewicht,

How do I 'set the device'?

In Audacity:

File >> Preferences >> Audio I/O

Set Playback and Record...

Example Mine is set at:
/dev/dsp <--- (the first sound device)
2channel

KC

OK. There is what looks like it should be a drop-down menu, but there are no items on the drop-down....

do you have alsa installed? have you ran alsaconf?

Yes, to both queries.

btw thanks for taking the time to help. This has been very frustrating.

post the output of typing
lspci
in a terminal

Here are the results of lspci:

roger@roger-basement:~$ lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333]
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333 AGP]
0000:00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
0000:00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 (rev 11)
0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233A ISA Bridge
0000:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
0000:00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 23)
0000:00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 23)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15)

err, nevermind...answering a few sound questions and I had to look back. U said ur system sounds are working.
Try
whereis /dev/dsp
in a terminal. I think audacity needs /dev/dsp and i'm willing to bet it's not seeing yours. It's prob seeing /dev/dsp1, /dev/dsp2,etc.

In the mean time try typing
artsdsp audacity
in a terminal, which will launch audacity and hopefully use arts to record.

Maybe someone a little more knowledgable about audacity will see this post and have a better answer. I've never used it before

whereis /dev/dsp returns
dsp:

artsdsp audacity returns
segmentation fault


It seems to me that the problem is outside of Audacity, since nothing from line-in gets to the speakers. Shouldn't merely having an input signal go through the card to the output? It does on my windows box.