From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 28 13: 8:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail7.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail7.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC78F37B402 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 13:08:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from home.com ([24.12.186.185]) by femail7.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010128210800.JDXA9583.femail7.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com>; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 13:08:00 -0800 Message-ID: <3A748A30.4C2B8200@home.com> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 13:08:00 -0800 From: Rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Petr Holub Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: microphone recording References: <000001c08934$08134840$1403fb93@arwen> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I don't know if this is any use to you: I found out by accident than on my laptop with ESS-Solo, I can record from the mic to a file by using- cat /dev/dsp > filename. Then play it back by using- cat filename > /dev/dsp. Unfortunately, I mostly hear the loud roar of the diskdrive :) Rob. Petr Holub wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've installed FreeBSD 4.2 RELEASE on my box with SoundBlaster AWE64. > I've compiled my own kernel (I've included dirvers pcm and sbc). Then > I've performed > MAKEDEV pcaudio > MAKEDEV snd0 > MAKEDEV vat > Playing sounds seems to be O.K. but I've run into trouble with > recording using the microphone - xmix shows Rec volume tuning > grayed out (doesn't matter what input device is selected). Mic > tuning bar doesn't appear until I click on it - then it appears > but it has no effect (and the Rec stays grayed out). > > I suppose I'm missing some device for recording in /dev, but I'm > unable to find out which one. > > And one more thing to say - on the same machine I've Windows2000 > runnig and everything is O.K. including recording using the microphone > (so I suppose sound card is O.K.). > > Thanks, > > Petr > > ================================================================ > Petr Holub > Masaryk University > Dept. Physical Chemistry Supercomputing Centre Brno > Faculty of Science Institute of Compt. Science > Kotlarska 2, 61137 Brno, CZ Botanicka 68a, 60200 Brno, CZ > phone: +420-5-41129312 phone: +420-5-41512278 > e-mail: hopet@chemi.muni.cz e-mail: hopet@ics.muni.cz > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message