Hi Sorry folks, a bit slow and only half of the story. Standing in the corner with the pointy hat with a "D", for an hour! lol. Gena Blindness Advocacy and Self Help Online www.bashonline.org >Hi > >Using beta 10, my modules are located in /lib/modules/2.4.18/misc/ > >Gena > > > >Blindness Advocacy and Self Help Online www.bashonline.org > >>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) w >as >>> > 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 t h >e >>> > 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 experimen t >>> > >> with arecord, I got the following: main 445: audio open error: >>> > >> inapropriate ioctl for device. Anyone have any ideas as to what I coul d > 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) >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>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
