On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 11:44 AM Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@xxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Jun 2021 16:45:00 +0530, Muni Sekhar said: > > > > And if it's configurable for multiple formats, was it set for the correct one? > > Is there a way to verify was it set for the correct one or not? > > arecord -v gives what it thinks the setup is. > > > > Does the record die immediately, or hang for a few seconds and timeout? > > What is the difference between these two ways? > > An immediate failure is usually related to a "Can't do it" situation where the > USB interaction to configure the device has failed, while a timeout usually > indicates that the configuration at least *claimed* to succeed, but is failing > to properly transfer valid data. > > > For my hardware, I noticed that it hangs for a few seconds and gives EIO (arecord: > > pcm_read:2032: read error: Input/output error). > > Given that the usbmon output ran to several megabytes, that's tending to > point at "the card was returning lots of packets, but they weren't actually the > format/data that arecord was expecting. So, is it a USB card issue? -- Thanks, Sekhar