Gnome Sound Recorder work for anyone?

[Gerry Tool]

Dexter Ang wrote:
> Gerry Tool wrote:
> 
>> I open Gnome Sound Recorder and click on the Record button.  I hear a
>> system sound indicating the button was clicked, but the button stays
>> red and nothing else happens.  Sound Recorder works on my system in an 
>> FC1 install, but did not work in FC2T3 nor does it work in final FC2 
>> from a fresh install. My sound card is onboard C-Media CM8738.  It plays
>> gnome system sounds fine, plays .ogg files fine and plays the test
>> sound in the Soundcard Detection applet.  Sounds work fine playing
>> DVDs in Totem.
>>
>>
>> I have added this to bug #100774.  Since there is no fix or workaround 
>> listed there, and I can't find a thread on this list discussing this, 
>> I'm asking if anyone has Sound Recorder working and knows a fix for 
>> this problem.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Gerry Tool
> 
> 
> Run Applications -> Preferences -> More Preferences -> Multimedia 
> Systems Selector
> 
> For the "Default Source" for "Input" select "OSS - Open Sound System".
> 
> Anyway that worked for me on an IBM Thinkpad T30. See if it works for 
> you. The menu selection was under Gnome. Dunno about KDE. Same situation 
> with me. Under the original setting of everything ALSA, could not record 
> audio on my mic. Switching to OSS for input worked.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> dex
> 
> 
> 
Thanks.  That seems to have fixed it.

Gerry