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Hi:

I installed ALSA drives and all my sound works great.  However, I can't use
sound recording.  It says : sox not installed.  I can't find any information
about sound recording device in ALSA documentation or their web site.  Could
anyone give me some help?  Thank you very much.

Frank

You can find SoX here http://home.sprynet.com/~cbagwell/sox.html

G'luck....

P.S.:   When you installed your drivers, what documentation were
        you following?  I'm about to install ALSA 0.5.10 on my
        Mandrake 7.02 system and I'm planning to follow the
        Alsa-sound-mini-HOWTO.  Is this a good plan?  Thanks...

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Yes, I followed mini-Howto for ALSA.  Just download the most recent stable
version and it works great for me.  Good luck and thank you for the info.

Frank

Quote:>I installed ALSA drives and all my sound works great.  However, I can't use
>sound recording.  It says : sox not installed.  I can't find any information
>about sound recording device in ALSA documentation or their web site.  Could
>anyone give me some help?  Thank you very much.

Well, the first thing I would do is to install sox. sox is a sound file
translator. It is in rpm if your distro uses rpm ( and is part of every
distribution I think)
If after you have installed sox, it still does not work, then you need
to worry some more.

I installed the most recent sox copy without any problems.  But I still can
record.  Any thoughts?

I assume you mean that you "can't" record.  Have you opened up a
mixer and looked at the line-in and mic enable buttons?  If
they're enabled, are their levels set to something sane, like
70ish (just not near zero)?

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Quote:>I installed the most recent sox copy without any problems.  But I still can
>record.  Any thoughts?

That sounds good ( unless youreally meant to say "can't")
Anyway, what is now the error message. Really we are not capable of
reading the messages off your monitor, no matter what you have heard
about TEMPEST and other monitoring stuff.

So, if I was to be facetious, I would say"Install the sound card". But
have you checked that it is on and that the volume on the microphone
line is turned up ( eg bring up kmix or your own mixer and make sure
that the microphone is on and turned up). Do you have a microphone? ....

: I installed the most recent sox copy without any problems.  But I still can
: record.  Any thoughts?

Yes, don't use the "standard record program" that comes with sox.
Look for the alsa supplied one. "Arecord or alsarecord" is the name;
I think.

The alsa drivers are great, but their documentation sucks.

Happy Xmas,
Friedhelm

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