I’ve been reading to try to get this fixed for weeks, but I can’t find anything that works.
I’m running 11.1, normal installation, with Jack and a RT-kernel. I have all the connection in Jack set to record properly in Ardour, but I can’t get anything to record. I can hear the audio from the microphone over the speakers, but I can’t record anything.
I’m running an HDA nVidia onboard soundcard, with hda-intel drivers.
You need **qjackctl **](http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net/)you will find it in yast there is a howto here it’s for fedora but basically the same.
You will have a lot of latency with the onboard card but it’s worth a try
/Geoff
Sorry, forgot to mention that I’m already using Qjackctl to start jackd.
Hello,
What volume settings does your soundcard have? Sometimes even though the microphone setting is fine, the capture setting may be low… that’s happened to me. Maybe if you post your jackd settings as well…
The Volume settings (from YaST) has the mic and mic boost set to full and the Analog mix set to full.
My Qjackctrl setup window has monitor, h/w monitor and h/w meter enabled. The Frames and Frames/buffer probably don’t matter. It’s using ALSA sound on card hw:0. Everything else is defaulted.
Where would the capture volume be? I don’t see one on the YaST>Sound>Volume… panel.
Edit> Oh, wait. On the alsamixer panel. It’s set at full, with capture toggled.
Still no sound, but I think I’m getting closer.
I’ve created a flow pattern (which is probably erroneous, but…).
The sound should go from the mic to the soundcard, to ALSA, to Jack, to Ardour. The only part of that that could be a problem is the soundcard to ALSA, and only the capture part of that.
I don’t know at this point.
Can you do a basic record with ‘arecord’ ? (I can post an example of that if you are not familiar)
God. Just gotta laugh. I had been suspecting this forever.
Pulseaudio was the problem. I removed all Pulseaudio packages, restarted, and boom, I have room to connect what I need.
So. I made my recording. It sounds bad (but I didn’t have that great a mic anyway) and I’m putting my packages back in place.
Man do I hate PA though. Very counterintuitive.
Hopefully this doesn’t happen when I get a proper sound card.
Ah. Pulseaudio. That was the first thing that I removed - for audio work it’s a nightmare.Why does it exist? Really?
Glad you got your problem sorted though!