Sound-Recorder problems

[Bob Goodwin]

David Curry wrote:

> Erik P. Olsen wrote:
>
>>>>> Bob Goodwin wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>         
>>>>
>>>            Audacity on this computer acts about the same as your Gnome
>>>            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.
>>  
>>
> Your note made me aware of arecord and then I discovered aplay through 
> using man arecord.
>
> 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.
>
"I suspect that gnome-sound-recorder is simply a gui frontend for arecord"

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