On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Donald Tournier wrote: > Thanks Clemens, that very helpful. We'll try to source one of these > C-Media cards as soon as possible. > > Also nice to know about the "hw:x" trick, although I'm not too sure > how to use that in practice. I've just tried this command, with no > success: > > $ arecord -D hw:x -t raw output.raw > ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1435:(_snd_pcm_hw_open) Invalid value for card > arecord: main:608: audio open error: No such device > > How exactly should this be used? Note that 'x' means card number or name. Just use 0 if you have only one card in system or use 'arecord -l' to list cards. Jaroslav ----- Jaroslav Kysela <perex@xxxxxxxx> Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer ALSA Project, Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel