Linux Linux - I need help,?

Question

I Need help with getting my sound card to work inside Linux. At the moment I can hear sound online, from my recordings and such like, but cant record the sound through my laptop Mic. Also I cant seem to see the sound card drivers in the Hardware Drivers app, so cant activate.

Any Ideas or answers would be a great help as Im a songwriter and constantly need to record demos onto my PC.

Thanks
Zac Moore

Answer 1

To give specific help we will need more info.

Which version of linux are you using?

Which utility are you using to record sound?

In many versions of linux the Hardware Drivers app is for graphic cards.

If you open a terminal and type

lspci

you should see you sound card in the list. If you can play you songs I would guess that your sound card is installed properly.

Audacity is a good app for recording sound. You should first look to see if it is already installed, and if not use your built in package manager (software installer and remover) to install it properly.

Good luck

Answer 2

i might say Ubuntu, that's somewhat straight forward to apply for a beginner, besides the undeniable fact that it nevertheless has the skill to do very progressed issues additionally GNOME is a working laptop or computing gadget environment, like KDE. Ubuntu comes with GNOME. in case you desire a extra homestead windows-like environment you ought to use Kubuntu that's Ubuntu with the KDE environment somewhat than GNOME. a solid factor with Ubuntu is which you would be able to alter between the variations very definitely, basically utilizing synaptic equipment supervisor (a software you will use a lot in case you get Ubuntu or Debian) you could replace computing gadget environments and upload the features of each version with basically some clicks. additionally Ubuntu is predicated off debian, so as that they are comparable yet ubuntu is designed to be extra consumer-friendly.

Answer 3

you would be better off asking in the linux forums at least then you should get a good answer