Jason Jones wrote: > >>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. > > 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,
The don't use "-D copy", the default device should work just fine. > >>When I upgraded to ALSA 1.03, all my recording abilities in alsamixer > >>(and gnome-alsamixer) disappeared. > > ... 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? It contains the settings of the mixer controls. Deleting it will help after an upgrade because some mixer controls might have changed. HTH Clemens ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
