To see how much free disk space you have, use the "df" command. Greg On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 07:07:24PM +0100, 'Georgina' wrote: > Hi All > > I wondered if anyone could shed some light what's wrong here. I'm > trying to record from a stereo source coming in via the line in of a > Sound Blaster Live Value. > > Firstly I tried with the latest of alsa release candidate one. I tried > many things but for example, if I entered the following: > > arecord -f cd test.wav > > The file would claim to be stereo but be only in one channel. > > I removed alsa and selected the SB Live in the kernel config and built a > new kernel. So after playing around with aumix, I got my line in source > playing and gave it the R record status. I found that I could not put > the -c 2 and -r 44100 together. The version of sox requires that > effects are stated after the filename. So successful commands are: > > rec -c 2 -f s -s w test.wav > > rec -f s -s w test.wav -r 44100 > > rec -c 2 -f s -s w test.wav -r 22050 > > In other words I can record in cd quality only in mono. Or stereo > recordings will only work at a rate of 22050 and not at the cd quality > that I wish to use. > > The fact that the alsa and the sox route aren't working suggests that it > is a hardware problem but it seems odd. I'm confident that I have > enough resources to make stereo recordings. As it is a Athlon 1.4 > processor 256 RAM and I've plenty of free disk space somewhere 10 Gb. > BTW: How do you establish exactly how much disk space is free? > > We know also that the sox version is dodgy too as the rec script is > currupt, so this could be the problem as I've borrowed the rec script > from the previous version. I'm using: > > sox: Version 12.17.3 > > All I want to do is to make a stereo cd quality recording. Any > suggestions of what the cause of my problems are please? > > Thanks. > > > > Gena > > Have your say: > Blindness Advocacy and Self Help Online www.bashonline.org > > Please don't send me MS Word documents, see > http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > Personal Contact Details: > E-mail: gena at gena-j.net WWW: http://www.gena-j.net ICQ: 144169465 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
