kubuntu-users Digest, Vol 30, Issue 57

[Richard Innes]

Tim: No need to get a sound card, Audacity should work with your on 
board sound. If you had sound before then the sound chip works with your OS.

Additional memory is always good, however, I don't think that is 
necessary here.

I suggest you re-enable the sound chip and then check the volume control 
and the mixer. make sure the volume is up on the master and the line in. 
In the sound device box choose automatic but on the Midi dialog box 
select your sound chip which should have ICH4R somewhere in its heading. 
In some mixers channels have to be selected or muted just check the the 
line-in is either selected or un-muted.

Audacity takes its feed not from the sound card directly but from the 
line-in so that whatever settings you have on your mixture does not 
affect the sound being recorded.

I have to confess here, I do most of my sound work in Windows simply 
because I get better results. I am not a Linux fanatic or a Windows 
hater, I have always either had two boxes or dual booted so I can use 
either OS as I wish. I find even though its open source Audacity 
actually works better in Windows (boy am I going to get slammed). Vive 
versa, for image work I prefer Linux because the software is cheaper, 
and I do most of my text work in Linux. Now that Linux can read - and 
soon to write to - Windows partitions dual booting, or running the OS'es 
together makes sense to me.

Richard I