Hello there!

I wrote about this problem on linuxquestions (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... rk-758080/) but they haven't replied so I went here.
Please read above post cause I don't want to repeat these information here.

So I assume you know I have pulse audio and can't record my voice. In audacity and ekiga the sensitivity bar are still. The microphone is working - it'd worked before I installed pulse audio but without it I didn't have audio mixing so this solution was unacceptable. The microphone also worked on Windows XP so this is not hardware problem.

Can anyone help me?


cheers,
Wojtek

Do you have pavucontrol and pavumeter installed? Since pulseaudio is only a wrapper layer you still need to have alsa working correctly. Try running alsamixer from the command line. Move around with keyboard arrows, and 'M' to mute or unmute.

annew: I've just installed pavumeter and pavucontrol. When it comes to alsamixer I switched all channels on. Volume control from dependencies of pavu* shows I don't have any input device except from some "monitor" device.

hope these information help you better understand my problem

I haven't had much to do with the technicalities of alsa for a very long time, so I'm speaking from memory.

First, with alsamixer running on the command-line, use F6 and select your sound-card - not the default, which will be pulse-audio and only show one channel. Then, F4 to check whether Capture is at a suitable level. On this laptop Capture shows the level, and Mic shows L R CAPTURE

It used to be that different sound-cards had different needs for capture settings, but as far as I know it changed some time back to capturing whatever it could hear.

Hope that helps

hello annew and thanks for replying


Unfortunatelly there's no F6 option in alsamixer so I couldn't choose other device.
I've installed pulseaudio according to this instruction:
https://wiki.kubuntu.org/PulseAudio

Not all voice-recorder applications use pulseaudio to start with, right? Ok. I've decided to drop out skype for many reasons. Currently I'm looking for a SIP client in Qt. Found one - qutecom and find it useful. But first I have to have opportunity to test my voice so audacity seems to be a good app to do that.

It enables both pulseaudio and normal (alsa) recording. But even normal recording (alsa) wouldn't work - I push play button and it seems that something is recording (the time indicator is running) but I can hear only silence.

I've turned on all channels, tested them out and nothing. I can post a screenshot if you like.


thanks in advance

RRH wrote:Unfortunatelly there's no F6 option in alsamixer so I couldn't choose other device.

I'm no expert on this, and the distros do different things with their packages, so I can't offer any more ideas on that. On mine, the first screen just gave one channel, for PA. F6 then allowed me to look at the channels on the Intel sound device.

I think you have to get the alsa working correctly before PA can help. I'd seriously advise you to sign up to alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net and ask for help there. You may get a negative reaction from some about PA, but if you stick with getting alsa recording to work in audacity you should be fine. Once that's working we can try again to get PA to work with it.