No sound recording

[Mohindar Rao, Raavi Mohan Rao]

ac wrote:
> H.S.Rai wrote:
>   
>> On my laptop Compaq Presario V3018TU, I am unable to record anything,
>> neither through buildin Mic nor through Mic with Head Set.
>>
>> Gnome Sound Recorder, starts time on clicking "Record", but on
>> replaying, the progress is shown on time bar, but no sound comes.
>> During recording, Recording Level Monitor remain still.
>>
>> In volume control, capture is full.
>>
>> lspci gave following output:
>>
>> 0000:00:1b.0 0403: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High
>> Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
>>
>> What I should I do?
>>
>>     
>
> this was posted in kubuntu forums recently , maybe it will help?
>
> =================
>   I have moved to Kubuntu from another distro and have had a lot of 
> trouble initially finding how to listen to bbc radio and then at the 
> same time, record the stream.
>
> BBC uses real audio streams and the obvious way to listen is to use 
> realplayer (currently version 10). Using Kubuntu, I had a problem 
> installing that program in kubuntu - an error message said it would 
> conflict with rvplayer, (which I could not find in my system). Maybe I 
> was looking in the wrong place. Anyway I then installed realplayer 
> from its binary downloaded from the Real site. However I could not get 
> any method of recording the stream to work, even trying most things in 
> sight, one at a time, programs and packages that seemed relevant.
> Audacity worked on a laptop I had for such recording, but now gave I/O 
> layer errors when used in other machines I have - something to do with 
> alsa and the audio card and audacity not being able to get to the 
> soundcard at the same time as the realplayer I think.
>
> Previos distro was ok when I used 'krecord', but however hard I looked 
> I could not find this in the add/remove programs lists. After more 
> persistance I did find krecord in the system>adept package 
> manager>krecord.
> It was available as a package, not a program. (!!)
>
> And it works!
>
> Krecord also provides a recording level indication and the mixer can 
> be run - both good for initial setting up the conditions. I could not 
> find a record level meter gui in gnome, even though it appeared to be 
> installed as a program.
>
> One note - I also tried ubuntu (gnome) for bbc recording, again with 
> no success for my situation, except with krecord.
>
> I use both kde and gnome, so my latest approach has been to now first 
> install ubuntu and update it, then install kubuntu-desktop, a big 
> download activity.
>
> Interestingly, realplayer installed easily in ubuntu (add/remove 
> programs), and was still available in kubuntu later. So in this case I 
> did not have to go to the Real site and download the binary.
> =================
>   
May, I know the version of Ubuntu/Kubuntu. It seems there has been some 
improvements made in 6.10 regarding sound. I mean some bugs were fixed, 
but I dont have any changelog at this moment.

krecord or grecord are front-ends, which uses some sound servers, most 
probably ALSA as back ends.

Regards