[NTLUG:Discuss] Microphone

[bobby@wrennest.com]

Kyle_Davenport at compusa.com wrote:
> 
> I use gmix.  There's a mixer setting on it which I guess controls /dev/mixer.
> There's a nice utility in Redhat called MAKEDEV which creates all the audio
> devices.   It depends on your particular card's driver which device, dsp, audio,
> dsp1, or dsp2, you are using for recording and playing.  I can cat /dev/audio or
> /dev/dsp and watch signals go thru it when I talk into the mike.
> 
Using 'record' from a terminal I can see activity when I talk into the
mic. I just don't have any sound when I play back the file. Doing the
cat commands you recommended I see gibberish go across the screen.

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