Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:40:13 +0000 From: Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting up a microphone Message-ID: <200601242340.13187.danny@ricin.com> In-Reply-To: <43D6655B.6050702@lbl.gov> References: <43D5EDD2.1030604@lbl.gov> <43D64398.2000407@bsdhacker.org> <43D6655B.6050702@lbl.gov>
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mixer recsrc must be mic, do you have that? Dan On Tuesday 24 January 2006 17:35, Keith Beattie wrote: > On 01/24/06 07:11, uidzero wrote: > > It's worked flawlessly for me after I add recompiled the kernel with > > sound support. (I use Skype as well.) > > Thanks and glad to hear that Skype is working. Listening to music, etc. > works just fine for me too, it's how to get input from the mic which I'm > stuck on. The machine is dual boot so I know the hardware works and the > things are plugged into the right place (Skype works when running XP). > This must be a FreeBSD config thing. > > I've tried, unsuccessfully, working with mixer, rawrec, wmrecord and > audacity to capture sound, so I'm now looking for a simple 'is your > microphone working' test akin to the 'cat some_small_file > /dev/dsp' > for testing noise coming out of the speakers (which still works). > > 'cat /dev/dsp > foo', speaking for a bit into the mic, then cntl-c to > stop, does create a non-empty file but then a 'cat foo > /dev/dsp' > doesn't produce any sound. The rawrec port seems promising but no love > from 'rawrec foo.raw' / 'rawplay foo.raw'. All this with mixer showing > non-zero levels for all channels and trying it with the recording source > as mic and then line. Something's gotta give here. > > > Maybe try updating to RELEASE-p8? > > Indeed I'll update anyway but I don't believe any of those patches are > sound related. > > Thanks, > ksb
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