Re: [Alsa-user] My record abilities are gone... (more info)

[Jason Jones]

I did a search for the file "~/.asoundrc" and it didn't exist, so I searched for the "/etc/asound.conf" file, and couldn't find it either, but I did find a "/etc/asound.state" file and it was quite lengthy.  Looked like a bunch of controls (163 of em', in fact)..  I'm tempted to delete it, and reinstall my alsa-libs.  Would that help?  Here's a couple of the controls I found in the asound.state file:

state.Audigy {
        control.1 {
                comment.access 'read write'
                comment.type INTEGER
                comment.range '0 - 100'
                iface MIXER
                name 'PCM Front Playback Volume'
                value.0 100
                value.1 100
        }
        control.2 {
                comment.access 'read write'
                comment.type INTEGER
                comment.range '0 - 100'
                iface MIXER
                name 'PCM Surround Playback Volume'
                value.0 0
                value.1 0
        }

Those look half-way normal..  There are others that look pretty psycho.... :

        control.155 {
                comment.access read
                comment.type IEC958
                iface MIXER
                name 'IEC958 Playback Mask'
                value ffffffff00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000$
        }
        control.156 {
                comment.access read
                comment.type IEC958
                iface MIXER
                name 'IEC958 Playback Mask'
                index 1
                value ffffffff00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000$
        }
        control.157 {
                comment.access read
                comment.type IEC958
                iface MIXER
                name 'IEC958 Playback Mask'
                index 2
                value ffffffff00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000$
        }

There's about 100 more zeros after the "$", too....  so... I'm not sure what to think...  I feel like I'm on a track that could lead to a solution though.. :)

--Jason

Clemens Ladisch wrote:

Jason Jones wrote:
  

When I upgraded to ALSA 1.03, all my recording abilities in alsamixer
(and gnome-alsamixer) disappeared.  I'm using Gentoo and 2.6.3 kernel
(with ALSA enabled in the kernel).
    

Which hardware/driver?

  

When I try to run the following command "arecord -d 10 -f dat -t wav -D
copy foobar.wav" I get the following output:

ALSA lib pcm.c:1954:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM copy
arecord: main:502: audio open error: No such file or directory
    

The "copy" pcm must be defined in your /etc/asound.conf or
~/.asoundrc.  Apparently, one of these files was overwritten/deleted.


Regards,
Clemens




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