From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Oct 6 23:16:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA19913 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 23:16:38 -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 XAA19879 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 23:16:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grafe@lab12.ie.pitt.edu) Received: by lab12.ie.pitt.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-4.1.4) id CAA22645; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 02:16:26 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 02:16:26 -0400 From: grafe@lab12.ie.pitt.edu (Gary Rafe) Message-Id: <199810070616.CAA22645@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 > > > 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, > > the right one should be "mixer mic" and so, after a quick trip out to the `net to pick up snd980607.tgz and a relatively quick kernel rebuild, this toshiba sounds much nicer all-around: better volume levels, local audio loopback via cat /dev/audio >/dev/audio works well, as does the speak_freely suite (i.e., sfmike connected to sfspeaker on the same host). i suspect it can only get better now. thanks! -- gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message