Fwd: Disable monitor recording source

[David Demelier]

On 05/02/2013 15:20, Stuart Barkley wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2013 at 05:22 -0000, David Demelier wrote:
> 
>> Hello (sorry for forwarding but I didn't have much answers),
> 
> This is probably the best place for this question.
> 
>> I would like to record only from mic but I can't remove monitor from
>> recording :
>>
>> markand at Melon ~ $ cat /dev/sndstat
>> FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2009061500/amd64)
>> Installed devices:
>> pcm0: <ATI R6xx (HDMI)> (play)
>> pcm1: <Analog Devices AD1984A (Analog 2.0+HP/3.1)> (play/rec) default
>> markand at Melon ~ $ mixer
>> Mixer vol      is currently set to  90:90
>> Mixer pcm      is currently set to  90:90
>> Mixer speaker  is currently set to   0:0
>> Mixer mic      is currently set to  90:90
>> Mixer rec      is currently set to  80:80
>> Mixer igain    is currently set to   0:0
>> Mixer ogain    is currently set to 100:100
>> Mixer monitor  is currently set to  80:80
>> Recording source: mic, monitor
>> markand at Melon ~ $ mixer -rec monitor
>> Recording source: mic, monitor
>> markand at Melon ~ $
>>
>> What I'm doing wrong?
> 
> A couple simple thoughts:
> 
> I've always used something like 'mixer =rec mic'.  Have you tried
> that?
> 
> Does recording work at all?  When you record do you get a mix of the
> mic and the monitor channels?
> 
> You might also try 'mixer monitor 0' to just mute monitor in the mix.
> 
> Stuart
> 

I also tried both command you said, mixer monitor 0 will completely
disable record, no audio input will be recorded, thus I'm guessing if my
mic line is correctly configure with my snd_hda(4) setup.

Unfortunately the command mixer =rec mic does not work neither.

Cheers,
David