Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 21:04:15 +0200 (MEST) From: Stefan Schwarzer <stefan.schwarzer@tu-clausthal.de> To: Orion Hodson <orion@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sound recording on FreeBSD 5.1 Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.56.0308272045390.27471@idefix.rz.tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <200308271656.h7RGux91052857@puma.icir.org> References: <200308271656.h7RGux91052857@puma.icir.org>
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Orion, thanks for your reply! When I wrote the previous mail, I was at work, and had only limited info available. Sorry. By the way, the motherboard is an Asus P4G8X Deluxe. On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Orion Hodson wrote: > /-- Stefan Schwarzer wrote: > | My current system is FreeBSD Release 5.1 with sound hardware RealTek > | 650LC AC97 on the motherboard. I can play sound fine, but I can't > | record anything (and am quite sure that I have set up everything > | correctly regarding the cabling and the mixer(8) settings). Is this > | known behaviour or is there even a patch? I tried recording with > | audio/gramofile from the ports collection. > > Can you also post the output of 'cat /dev/sndstat'? The AC97 codec is just > one component in your sound system and probably not related to the recording > problem. $ uname -a FreeBSD warpy.sschwarzer.net 5.1-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p2 #17: Fri Aug 22 22:45:47 CEST 2003 root@warpy.sschwarzer.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WARPY i386 $ cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Installed devices: pcm0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4)> at io 0x9800, 0x9400 irq 5 bufsz 16384 (1p/1r/0v channels duplex default) $ dmesg | grep pcm pcm0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4)> port 0x9400-0x943f,0x9800-0x98ff mem 0xe1000000-0xe10000ff,0xe1800000-0xe18001ff irq 5 at device 31.5 on pci0 pcm0: <Avance Logic ALC650 AC97 Codec> > Can you provide some additional info about the recording problem? e.g. you've > checked the mixer rec input, mixer gain, but is any data is produced? $ mixer Mixer vol is currently set to 75:75 Mixer pcm is currently set to 25:25 Mixer speaker is currently set to 75:75 Mixer line is currently set to 75:75 Mixer mic is currently set to 0:0 Mixer cd is currently set to 75:75 Mixer rec is currently set to 0:0 Mixer line1 is currently set to 75:75 Mixer phin is currently set to 0:0 Mixer phout is currently set to 0:0 Mixer video is currently set to 75:75 $ mixer =rec mic Recording source: mic $ mixer Mixer vol is currently set to 75:75 Mixer pcm is currently set to 25:25 Mixer speaker is currently set to 75:75 Mixer line is currently set to 75:75 Mixer mic is currently set to 0:0 Mixer cd is currently set to 75:75 Mixer rec is currently set to 0:0 Mixer line1 is currently set to 75:75 Mixer phin is currently set to 0:0 Mixer phout is currently set to 0:0 Mixer video is currently set to 75:75 $ mixer mic 75 Setting the mixer mic from 0:0 to 75:75. $ cp /dev/audio test.au # about 40 s ^C $ ls -l test.au -rw-r--r-- 1 schwa schwa 262144 Aug 27 20:41 test.au The file test.au consists of 262144 bytes with the value 0xFE. > If so, does it sound garbled, inaudible, etc... When I do $ cp test.au /dev/audio I hear nothing (silence) over the headphones. Stefan
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