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[chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org]

Lennart Sorensen writes: 

> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:08:15PM -0500, chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org wrote:
>> The only '------' I have are under the Items ADC1 14d, another ADC1 14d, 
>> ADC2 14d, and ADC3 14d. They are not "under" anything - above each one is 
>> only space. And, "yes" if I hit [spacebar] it shows a red 'L CAPTUR R' 
>> above the item. 
> 
> Well ADC tends to mean analog to digital convertor, also known as an
> input.  Most likely one of those is the inputs you are looking for.

Okay, but here's a new ripple: Why is there not a level control bar above 
those ADC 'Items' (Devices)? The alsa manual suggests that there should be 
(from the way I understood that document). 

> I do see some claims that things work much better with alsa 1.0.15
> rather than 1.0.14.  That unfortunately requires 2.6.24 kernel or an
> external alsa driver compile.  Certainly debian has alsa 1.0.15 packages
> available in the unstable release that can be compiled against any
> recent kernel, so if ubuntu doesn't have that it would be easy to get
> from debian and use that. 
> 
> Apparently configuring routing of ports on the emu devices is still a
> bit confusing.  They are capable of many weird things which of course
> means they are complex to setup.  Apparently the capture device setup
> was under playback initially which of course makes no sense at all. 
> 
> --
> Len Sorensen
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