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! > > >> > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> Speakup mailing list > > >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >> > > > > > >Visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck > > >The Moon is Waxing Crescent (28% of Full) > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >Speakup mailing list > > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > Visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck The Moon is Waxing Crescent (32% of Full)
