[pulseaudio-discuss] Mic not working with PA

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and remrot at gmail.com at 23/09/09 19:29 did gyre and gimble:
> Thanks a lot for your help!
> 
>  I tried everything you suggested (except for checking /etc/pulse diffs, 
> I'll do that later) without any luck. But I attached the output of 
> 'pacmd list' as well as screenshots of pavucontrol and alsamixer. Imho, 
> everything looks right. When recording with audacity, I can select (in 
> pavucontrol) between the device itself and "monitor of" the device. When 
> selecting the device, the "recording cursor" in audacity does not even 
> move (but flickers). When selecting the monitor, the cursor moves but 
> records nothing but silence (look at the volume meter). Dito with the 
> gnome-sound-recorder (he even crashes on exit when recording directly 
> from the device instead of the monitor). I couldn't find a place where I 
> can set the monitor as the default recording device. I can only change 
> that after recording has started, which is quiet confusing... what's the 
> point of these "monitors" btw?

Monitors allow you to hear what is coming out of a speaker (think of a 
band playing at a live gig, they use monitors to hear their own 
playing). So for every output sink there is a "monitor" source that goes 
with it.

If you were to record from a monitor and then play some audio you should 
hear that coming back in.



It's odd that things are not working tho' :s Perhaps the live CD uses 
tsched=0 mode in it's default.pa? The output from pacmd list again on 
the live cd should provide a good comparison.

Col



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