FC2 Gnome sound recorder in KDE - Some Functionality

[David Curry]

This is a report to the community on at least partial functionality of 
Gnome sound recorder running the KDE desktop in FC2.  All attempts to 
use the application while running the Gnome desktop failed.  I stumbled 
across this positive functionality while exploring features of KDE desktops.

Sound hardware consists of VIA 8235 & AC97 chips on Gigabyte mobo

The software includes:
kernel-2.6.10-1.770_FC2 with alsa driver snd-via82xx
alsa-lib-1.0.3a-2, alsa-utils-1.03-1,
kdebase-3.2.2-8.FC2.i386, kdelibs-3.2.2-12.FC2
kdemultimedia-3.2.2-2.i386

Gnome-sound-recorder functionality was discovered while exploring KDE 
desktop popup menu items and their submenus.  Key to the discovery was a 
KDE application named Multimedia Systems Selector reached by K/Red Hat 
icon --> Preferences --> More Preferences --> Multimedia Systems 
Selector which displays a dialogue box labeled "GStreamer Preferences".  
Within the dialogue box, one can display a menu of choices for Audio - 
Default Sink and a Test button.  Originally set on ALSA, clicking on 
Test produced no sound.  Four other alternatives were presented - Arts 
sound daemon, Enlightenment sound daemon, Open Sound Software, and 
Custom.  Test button results were positive for the first three of those 
alternatives, but only OSS played nice with Gnome-sound-recorder.

Efforts to record voice messages with Gnome-sound-recorder produced 
nothing more than popping noises.  However, gnome-sound-recorder did 
record music played from a CD-rom.  Recording worked when the type of 
file to be recorded was set to "Voice" and to "CD quality, lossless."

FWIW