Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 13:08:00 -0800 From: Rob <europax@home.com> To: Petr Holub <hopet@chemi.muni.cz> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: microphone recording Message-ID: <3A748A30.4C2B8200@home.com> References: <000001c08934$08134840$1403fb93@arwen>
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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
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