Re: Getting a SB 5.1 card to record



"H.K. Kingston-Smith" (HKK-S@xxxxxxxxx) writes:
I have a SB Live 5.1 sound board in my Linux box, under a
2.6.22.9 kernel. This board is identified in alsamixer as

Card: SB Live 5.1 Dell OEM [SB0220]
Chip: SigmaTel STAC9708,11

It can reproduce sound without any problems, but I seem to be unable to
get it to record. Could somebody please post correct alsamixer settings
to get this board to record? The problem might be elsewhere, but some
tried and tested settings would allow me to reduce the problem a bit.

Have you used a mixer to select what you will actually record from?
There should be a button on each input that lets you select that
source as the "record". There's also a gain control connected to
that "record" input.

You can feed all kinds of things into the soundcard, but unless
it's selected for 'record" all you are experiencing is that input going
through the soundcard to the speakers, it's not really going into the
computer.

Michael

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