Sound-Recorder problems

[David Curry]

Bob Goodwin wrote:

>
> And it appears that the same is true for alsa and apparently the 
> problem is that "arecord" does not work in FC-2.
>
> See:  
> http://linux-sound.org/quick-toots/3-arecord_and_rtmix/quick-toot-arecord_and_rtmix-1.html 
>
>
> Bob Goodwin
>
Thanks for the URL, Bob.  I tried the technique suggested at the page.  
Adapting the suggested aplay command to my own directory layout, I tried 
out the arecord and aplay command statements laid out there after 
checking the version numbers of arecord, aplay, amixer, and alsamixer on 
my system.  They are all version 1.0.3 

The first time I tried the command,  $ arecord -f dat -d 20 -D hw:0,0 
test.wav
a file recorded without incident.  On play back with,   $ aplay -f dat 
test.wav
I heard a series of noises as exception messages printed on the screen 
reading, "underrun!!! (at least nn microsecs)"  [at least I think it 
read microsecs]

After tinkering with alsamixer settings a bit and running arecord again, 
the program output included the message,
arecord: pcm_read:1164: read error: input/output error
Running aplay again with test.wav as the input file yielded nothing but 
another command line prompt.

It does indeed look like the alsa arecord component distributed with FC2 
does not work with 2.6.10 kernels.  (I have tried recording sound on at 
least three kernels 2.6.10-1.12 through 2.6.10-1.770_FC2)
Since Jeffrey Burns reports that he is able to record on his FC3 system,