aplay/arecord start-up error

[Igor Gueths]

Hi Chuck. My bad on the error thing. I just typed arecord --help and got
usage info, this means that the prog works. The only thing that threw me
off there was my little standard of just typing in program name and
expecting usage information. Kind of stupid of me that I didn't try that
yesterday, but again I was doing this at about 2:00 a.m smile!


On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

>
> Hi Igor,
>
> The script I sent Greg, and which he resent, is not too
> meaningful without a detailed commentary, and it is specific to
> version 0.9.0beta11 of the alsa drivers. So if you just copy that
> script it may or may not work for you.
>
> In general you need to use a bunch of options with arecord in
> addition to naming the file you want to create. You need to
> specify the sampling rate you want to use, the sample size, the
> file type, how many channels to create, and the duration of the
> recording you want to make. How you do all those things will vary
> somewhat depending on your version of alsa. The documentation is
> pretty skimpy, but it is all there in the man page if you have
> the patience to tease it out.
>
> If you can tell us the alsa version you are using and show us the
> command line you tried to use perhaps we can get more specific.
>
> Chuck
>
> On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Igor Gueths wrote:
>
> > Hi all. I can play audio fine, however when I went to try to experiment
> > with arecord, I got the following: main 445: audio open error:
> > inapropriate ioctl for device. Anyone have any ideas as to what I could be
> > missing or doing wrong? Thanks!
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
>
> Visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck
> The Moon is Waxing Crescent (28% of Full)
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>