aplay/arecord start-up error

[Igor Gueths]

Hi
all. Now that I think about it, got another question. I got the alsa
drivers/lib/utils version 0.9.0beta12, but I couldn't figure out where the
drivers were placed. I am using beta 9 and using a start-up script that I
wrote that loads the apropriate module at boot time. In terms of beta 12,
I looked in /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/sound/acore. I looked in the isa
directory, considering that I have an isa-pnp card, and the driver for my
cs4236 wasn't present. With beta9, I just use modprobe to load the mods,
and everything works perfectly. Any ideas of where the installer may have
hidden those drivers lol! Thanks.  On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, 'Georgina' wrote:

> Hi
>
> Glad that your requested the version number of the alsa driver as some of
> the lines may produce interesting results.  I see that the -d (Duration) was
> set at 2 hours, that's a lot of disk space.
>
> Using alsa 09 beta 10 I use these lines:
>
> arecord -d 1800 <filename>.wav
>
> This will produce a 8 bit mono file of 14Mb of half an hour.
>
> arecord -f cd -d 1800 <filename>.wav
>
> Which will record a 16 bit stereo CD quality recording.  Can't remember the
> disk space used for this half an hour recording.
>
> A "arecord --help" will tell users what switches are available for their
> particular version.  Providing the little indians don't get you, lol.
>
> Gena
>
>
>
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> >
> >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!
> >>
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