Re: [alsa-devel] Bugs on aspire one A150

From: Andreas Mohr
Date: Mon Mar 16 2009 - 10:50:48 EST


Hi,

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 03:42:54PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:31:58 +0100,
> Andreas Mohr wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 03:18:20PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > So, the following is also problematic
> > >
> > > % arecord -fdat -c1 -Dplughw ng.wav
> > >
> > > while the below works?
> > >
> > > % arecord -fdat -Dhw good.wav
> >
> > Indeed, the above has problems with problematic slider positions whereas
> > the below never has.
>
> Err, could you be more specific about "slider positions"?

Hmm, I thought I was... (elsewhere)

In the problematic case (using plughw),
whenever left channel / right channel sliders are equal, no sound gets recorded.
IOW, there has to be a huge difference (in either direction)
between left and right channel slider to hear anything. And that is Not
A Good Feature to have ;)


> > > Does the conversion by sox from good.wav to a mono-channel file work?
> >
> > I assume I should be using
> > sox good.wav -c1 good1.wav
> > ?
> >
> > If so, yes, this works, audio is there.
>
> Just to be sure - what about below?
> sox good.wav -c1 good1.wav mixer 0.5,0.5

Yep, still works.

Thanks,

Andreas
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