Over the last few days I've been having problems with arecord. Basically it writes the file header, prints its status line and then hangs at 100% CPU usage. Forcing a coredump reveals:
#0 0x40194eb7 in poll () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x40058d4f in snd_pcm_wait (pcm=0x80595c0, timeout=-1) at pcm.c:1688 #2 0x4005d337 in snd_pcm_read_areas (pcm=0x80595c0, areas=0xbffff2f4, offset=0, size=1365, func=0x400636f0 <snd_pcm_plugin_read_areas>) at pcm.c:4995 #3 0x40063915 in snd_pcm_plugin_readi (pcm=0x80595c0, buffer=0x8059b70, size=1365) at pcm_plugin.c:277 #4 0x400576fc in snd_pcm_readi (pcm=0x8058fc0, buffer=0x8059b70, size=1365) at pcm_local.h:357 #5 0x804ca32 in pcm_read (data=0x8059b70 "", rcount=1365) at aplay.c:1007 #6 0x804e19d in capture_go (fd=3, count=176400, rtype=2, name=0xbffff767 "tmp.wav") at aplay.c:1660 #7 0x804e4de in capture (name=0xbffff767 "tmp.wav") at aplay.c:1747 #8 0x804b33f in main (argc=7, argv=0xbffff5b4) at aplay.c:499 #9 0x400e5c6f in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6 I'm using kernel 2.4.10 with the low-latency patch, current CVS ALSA drivers, libs and utils, Midiman Audiophile card. snd built with ALSA 0.9 support records OK, so it's probably not that deep down, but I can't see anything really glaring. Using the hw:0 device gives an i/o error. aplay is fine. bash-2.05# ls -l /proc/asound/dev total 0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 116, 0 Dec 1 18:25 controlC0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 116, 8 Dec 1 18:25 midiC0D0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 116, 24 Dec 1 18:25 pcmC0D0c crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 116, 16 Dec 1 18:25 pcmC0D0p crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 116, 1 Dec 1 18:25 seq crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 116, 33 Dec 1 18:25 timer I have done a full rebuild (make cvsclean or distclean and then cvscompile). TIA for any clues what I've done or what's gone wrong. James -- James Tappin, O__ "I forget the punishment for using [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- \/` Microsoft --- Something lingering http://www.xena.uklinux.net/ with data loss in it I fancy" _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel