Sound recorder doesn't work

[Wladston Viana]

I have a Toshiba Satellite R20 tablet pc, running a fresh instalation of Ubuntu 8.04.

Sound recorder simply won't work, it will never record any sound information, no matter with of the 6 inputs I select (digital, capture, capture 1, capture 2, mic boost, front mic boost)

[Nick Ellery (nick.ellery)]

This may be because your microphone jack isn't supported by Ubuntu.

[Wladston Viana (wladston)]

The microphone is embedded in the notebook.

I can see that the microphone is supported, because I can hear my beats "louder" when I tap near to the microphone, because it's playing my taps to the speaker ...

[Pietro (pietro)]

Dear Ubuntu, I have read dozens of pages and postings about the 'sound issues' in Ubuntu since I updated to 8.04. Glad that Skype and streaming audio on Firefox now work. But I need to record that streaming audio; so please fix whatever is needed to get GNOME Sound Recorder to work. And for those of us who have jiggered our config files to get some compromise between ALSA and PulseAudio that works for us, please provide a set of standard config-files and recommended uninstallations that enable all apps to work. Not all apps have to work at the same time, I suppose; but Firefox and Sound Recorder need to work simultaneously, and nothing should disrupt a Skype call in progress.
There is plenty of philosophy-talk out there about why Ubu is switching to PA; we don't need more of that. We can Google it to find out the backstory if curious. At this point we need some generic solutions (i.e. does jackd need to be uninstalled?) so we can start hashing out any peculiarities we may have with our respective hardwares.
Please create a general fixit HowTo page and link it to Ubuntu's homepage, or title it in a way that is so obvious we can all find it. This is a serious bug, and a known one. I suspect a fix exists, but several weeks of on-and-off searching and I have not found it nor indication that anyone else who has found it or created it.
If we have attempted workarounds by installing Jokosher, Audacity, Ardour, and/or GTK-recordMyDesktop (none of which work), please tell us which ones are likely to have persistent incompatibilities and need to be uninstalled.

[Wladston Viana (wladston)]

still an issue in intrepid.

Not only the sound imput doesn't work, it also records one minute of blank sound for every second I try to record, really weird!!

[Michele Mangili (mangilimic)]

Hello.

I don't understand which source package does this bug belong to. I'm not sure that sound-recorder is the right choice.

Did you get this error while using gnome-sound-recorder, or just sound-recorder?

Second, you marked this bug as confirmed, but as you can read here (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status) another user must mark the bug as confirmed.

Have you tried to plug an external microphone in your notebook?

Thank you

[Wladston Viana (wladston)]

I got the bug using gnome-sound-recorder.

I also don't have an external microphone to test it with. I'm sure that my microphone isn't broken, because it works on windows.

Thanks,

[Michele Mangili (mangilimic)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately we can't fix it without more information.

I suppose that this is not an issue of gnome-sound-recorder, but a general sound problem.

Would you please run this script [1] and paste the result here?

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems#Automatic%20Sound%20Information%20Collection

Thanks in advance

[Wladston Viana (wladston)]

thanks!

here goes : http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=d2441dc9c3b9d10a9658d79f8cf90992c916fff6

[Michele Mangili (mangilimic)]

Hi!

I've found this bug #275998 which seems to relate to your report . I know that your case looks different because in Hardy you couldn't use your microphone. Can you remember if you had turned on the Mic boost option when you were using Hardy?

In fact you wrote that you could hear your taps to the microphone when using hardy, but the volume was too weak. So I was wondering whether you had turned on the boost option, which usually makes the sound captured by a microphone more clear.

(I'm sorry for my poor english!)

[Wladston Viana (wladston)]

Hey Michele,

Thanks for your help!

Well, actually, I couldn't find the mic boost option. Here on ibex I can't even hear the taps, so I think it wouldn't change anything anyway ....

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Hardy reached EOL on May 12, 2011.
Please see this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

I've tried recreating this bug with Oneiric and was unable to, given the information you've provided. Please either a) upgrade and test or b) increase the verbosity of the steps to recreate it so we can try again.

Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for sound-recorder (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]