aplay/arecord start-up error

[Igor Gueths]

Hi Chuck. But is their some specific dir where the drivers are placed? For example /lib/modules/2.4.18/misc? Thanks!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Charles Hallenbeck <hallenbeck at valstar.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: aplay/arecord start-up error 


> Igor -
> 
> It is possible that the names of the drivers may have changed.
> They used to be called "snd-card-xxxx" but at least in beta11
> they are now called "snd-xxxx" without the "card" part.
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Igor Gueths wrote:
> 
> > 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Blindness Advocacy and Self Help Online www.bashonline.org
> > >
> > > >
> > > >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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