On Tue, 9 Nov 2010, Manu Abraham wrote: > testbox ~ # arecord -Dhw:2,0 > Recording WAVE 'stdin' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono > Any idea, why saa7231_hw_params is not getting invoked ? Your hw probably does not support directly 8-bit sample at 8000Hz, one channel. Use 'plughw:2,0' device instead 'hw:2,0' to let alsa-lib do all stream format conversions. 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