Bob Goodwin wrote:
As it turns out, gnomepsoundprecorder is apparently a gui frontend for a program named grecorder. At least that is what the properties dialong entries say if one right-clicks on the Sound Recorder menu item in Red Hat --> Sound & Video --> menu.David Curry wrote:
"I suspect that gnome-sound-recorder is simply a gui frontend for arecord"Erik P. Olsen wrote:
Your note made me aware of arecord and then I discovered aplay through using man arecord.Audacity on this computer acts about the same as your GnomeBob Goodwin wrote:
sound-recorder, looks like it's trying to record but nothing ...
I think Gnome sound-recorder crashing is a separate problem
here. I would like to remove it and reinstall. Can anyone
tell me which RPM it is in?
I do believe the problem is not with gnome-sound-recorder, it is with
alsa. Try to record from the command line with arecord and you get same
problem: a recorded file with no sound. If you turn your speaker volume
to max when you aplay the file you get white noise.
I also get an output file with nothing in it other than white noise. I suspect, though, that whether we use command line arecord or gnome-sound-recorder to attempt recording sound we are using the same underlying application. That is, I suspect that gnome-sound-recorder is simply a gui frontend for arecord. That may not be the case, but I suspect it.
And it appears that the same is true for alsa and apparently the problem is that "arecord" does not work in FC-2.
See: http://linux-sound.org/quick-toots/3-arecord_and_rtmix/quick-toot-arecord_and_rtmix-1.html
Bob Goodwin
At the moment, I am looking into alsactl which saves amixer/alsamixer settings in /etc/asound.state. One can get a readout of all controls and their settings by entering, alsactl contents on a command line in directory /usr/bin/.
