From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Oct 6 21:54:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA06078 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 21:54:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lab12.ie.pitt.edu (lab12.ie.pitt.edu [136.142.89.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA06068 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 21:54:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grafe@lab12.ie.pitt.edu) Received: by lab12.ie.pitt.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-4.1.4) id AAA21884; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 00:54:38 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 00:54:38 -0400 From: grafe@lab12.ie.pitt.edu (Gary Rafe) Message-Id: <199810070454.AAA21884@lab12.ie.pitt.edu> To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it Subject: Re: Q: why distorted mic audio input on Toshiba? Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > for the volume problem, there is a hack in > http;//www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/snd980607.tgz > > about the mike/recording problem, speak-freely is not well supported > by the driver, try something else (e.g. cat /dev/audio > /dev/audio ) > to check if the mike is really so bad.. thanks for the former; i have it now & will give it a scan. i can't report much good from the latter. at first, "cat /dev/audio >/dev/audio" returned stoney silence. trying different combinations of mixer settings, i note that when "mixer pcm" was set to 100, only "mixer igain" settings produced any output, and not so encouraging, at that. essentially, the same noisey output with only a hint of discernable audio underneath as experienced with 'speak_freely'. perhaps updated drivers will fare better? --gary [btw, i'm not subscribed to multimedia just now, so direct responses are appreciated]. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message