Bug#421853: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#421853: Unable to record microphone with SB Live! (emu10k1)

[Elimar Riesebieter]

On Wed, 02 May 2007 the mental interface of
Adam Porter told:

> Package: alsa-driver 1.0.13-1, alsa-driver 1.0.13-2
> Severity: important
> 
> I have tried to use several instrument tuners in Debian, including fmit, 
> lingot, gtkguitune, and k3guitune (the latter is not in Debian, but I 
> compiled it).  I have two sound cards, a SoundBlaster Live! Value, and a 
> SoundBlaster Live! 5.1.  Both work fine for playing audio, but I am not able 
> to record microphone input.  Here's what I've tried and encountered:
> 
> *  I can use Audacity to record from hw:0,2 or hw:1,2, but those devices 
> (the ,2 ones) are multichannel input/output devices.  For some reason, 
> Audacity can handle them, but all the tuner apps I've tried cannot handle the 
> multiple channels; they give errors like this:
> 
> Couldn't set number of channels for ALSA device hw:0,2: Invalid argument
> 
> *  I have tried to use hw:0,1 and hw:1,1, which are supposed to be the 
> microphone input devices, but Audacity simply receives no input, and the 
> tuners give errors like this:

Here:
EMU10k1
Audacity hw:0,2 -> works well
lingot          -> works well
gtkguitune      -> works well
fmit            -> (broken pipe) (Maybe a fmit bug? The stream is
                                 visible)

This was tested without any artsd or esd running! Trying fmit on an
artsd nothing changes. I can't find an input selection in lingot,
gtkguitune nor fmit?

But hey, I am using Driver Version 1.0.14rc3 from experimental ;)

I am not really firm with this, so please try 1.0.14rc3 instead as
I noticed some probs with the emu10k1 card in 1.0.13. If no one
else on [1] can analyse your problem, we have to push a bugreport
upstream [2].

[1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-wpa-devel/
[2] https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/login_page.php

Elimar

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