On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 09:14 -0700, Bill Unruh wrote: > On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 17:19 +0200, David Dasenbrook wrote: > >> The key to success is the "AC97" item both in the playback and in the > >> capture section of alsamixer. This shows up only once in the KDE Mixer, > >> which makes kmix useless for this solution. However, in alsamixer, you > >> can control the levels of "AC97" for playback and capturing seperately. > >> To turn off monitoring, you need to mute the AC97 item in the playback > >> section, but still turn the AC97 capturing to 100% to be able to record. > >> I don't know what this AC97 thing is all about, but it works. If anyone > >> could explain this to me, I'd be very grateful. > > > > It's a kmix bug. Please report it. > > > > AC97 is the codec that delivers line and mic signals to the card. > > I am a bit confused with this description. I would think that the plugs on > the card deliver line and mic signals to the card. What does it mean to say > that the codec delivers line and mic signals to the card? >
It's the bit of hardware that turns the analog signals from line and mic into digital audio. Lee ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
