Greg - I typed just what you did, and mine worked, with default parameters of unsigned 8 bit samples, 8000 samples per second. I use the arecord command a lot but usually specify different parameters on the command line. I cannot help you with those error messages. Chuck On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Gregory Nowak wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to record a test wave file. > I got alsa setup the way I want thanks to some people who suggested using alsamixer instead of amixer. > I know my microphone works, because I can hear myself in the speakers. > However, when I do "rec test.wav", I don't hear anything upon playing the wav file. > When I do "arecord test.wav" I get the following error. > > > ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:598:(snd_pcm_hw_open) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_PVERSION failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device > arecord: main:445: audio open error: Inappropriate ioctl for device > > > Could someone please tell me how to fix this so I could record, or what am I doing wrong here? Thanks. > Greg > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (85% of Full)