From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 24 23:40:36 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E137716A41F for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:40:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danny@ricin.com) Received: from smtpq3.tilbu1.nb.home.nl (smtpq3.tilbu1.nb.home.nl [213.51.146.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AE9C43D49 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:40:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danny@ricin.com) Received: from [213.51.146.189] (port=39474 helo=smtp2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl) by smtpq3.tilbu1.nb.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1F1Xm6-0003j5-Td for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:40:34 +0100 Received: from cp464173-a.dbsch1.nb.home.nl ([84.27.215.228]:64861 helo=desktop.homenet) by smtp2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1F1Xm6-0007sY-0W for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:40:34 +0100 From: Danny Pansters To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:40:13 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <43D5EDD2.1030604@lbl.gov> <43D64398.2000407@bsdhacker.org> <43D6655B.6050702@lbl.gov> In-Reply-To: <43D6655B.6050702@lbl.gov> X-Face: :N, f2_*44g[tRY8Y-gL2zi`G|<6SpFjTeHt|V5LO6Yl2E7yAfEh{E6-8pqxUFX"l)=?utf-8?q?Nm8y=7E=0A=09IWJSAWQ=7D+=3DpP=7CT=5D?=@sy1sz%h)*CW6gtbp]"fe@MjICtIUo.0, CH~{[R4PXSyL MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601242340.13187.danny@ricin.com> X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Subject: Re: Setting up a microphone X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:40:37 -0000 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