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recording with alsa rc7, via8233, redhat 8.0

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Joel Smith

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Feb 22, 2003, 10:13:47 PM2/22/03
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i downloaded alsa rc7 driver, libs, utils. configured, made, and installed
them, changed modules.conf and added the appropriate two lines for the
Redhat 8.0 distribution. after unmuting the devices i need to and
setting the rec option to on for line input, i can
play sound but i can't record sound. arecord will say after it
tries to record

arecord: pcm_read:1081: read error: Input/output error

in /var/log/messages it says
Feb 22 21:33:43 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
sound-slot-1
Feb 22 21:33:43 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
sound-service-1-0

which seems strange to me since i only have one sound card -- (doesn't
sound-slot-1 determine the module for the second sound card?)

any help would be appreciated.


Dr. Yuan Liu

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Feb 23, 2003, 3:53:51 PM2/23/03
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It does sound strange - has any other application had same trouble? It
could be an app config issue.

I use the same equipment (except RH7.3). But I don't have arecord; I
can use grecord. Try this. It comes with GNome.

Yuan Liu

Dr. Yuan LIU

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Feb 23, 2003, 3:57:51 PM2/23/03
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It does sound strange - has any other application had same trouble? It


could be an app config issue.

I use the same equipment (except RH7.3). But I don't have arecord; I

can use grecord. Try this. It comes with GNome. rec also works.

Yuan Liu

Joel Smith

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Feb 25, 2003, 9:57:35 AM2/25/03
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i just read from the sound howto

1. If you can, try to test sound card recording under MS-DOS to determine
if there is a hardware problem

how do i do this?

2. Sometimes a different DMA channel is used for recording than for
playback. In this case the most probable reason is that the
recording DMA is set up incorrectly.

in modules.conf i put at the very end (in order to make ogle play well)
options ide-cd dma=1

did this mess up the record? should i take it out? put it in first?

should i configure the sound card with pnp?

i read that rc7 is buggy so i tried to install rc6. the utils did not
configure because it could not find libasound... i read that the
$prefix variable used in the lib configure and the utils configure
need to be the same, but both are assigned NONE.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

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