Re: audiorecord producing only white noise

["Aaron J. Grier" <agrier%poofygoof.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 04:13:31PM -0500, James K. Lowden wrote:
> Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> > what is record.source set to?  the
> > fix might might be as simple as mixerctl -w record.source=line
> 
> Hi Aaron, 
> 
> $ mixerctl -a |grep record
> record.source=line
> record.volume=240,240
> record.volume.mute=off
> 
> Thanks.  Sadly, no. :-(   I'm pretty sure audiorecord and mixerctl both
> set /dev/sound, so 
> 
>       mixerctl -w record.source=line
> and
>       audiorecord -p line
> 
> do the same thing.  
> 
> BTW, gramofile is immaterial.  With nothing running, I'm able to play the
> tape through the sound card to the speakers.  So the hardware's OK, or at
> least hooked up correctly.  

the mixer controls are working.  for ac97 parts, the record controls
takes a signal path separate from the mixer.  your problem seems limited
to ADC operation.  as a wild stab in the dark, if your tape deck is
playing through your sound card, you could try setting
inputs.dac.mute=on and record.source=mixerout, then recording.
(obviously inputs.dac.mute=off before trying to playback the recording.)

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