by Hi
I'm running Redhat 7.2 Kernel 2.4.7-10, with a CMI8738 PCI-SX Sound card..
When attempting to use the gnome recorder I get a messagebox with the
message
"Sounddevice not ready! Please check that there isn't another program
running that's using the sounddevice." I have been unable to find such a
program. Moreover, when running "fuser -v /dev/dsp" I get nothing.
When running the command line
"%dd bs=8k count=4 </dev/audio>sample.au"
no error is reported, and after a few seconds the sample.au file is created.
(4+0 records in 4+0 records out) However the upon playing the sample.au file
contains only silence.
Other au and wav files play properly (both from Harddisk and cdrom).
"dmesg" indicates that the sound card was detected during boot with no
apparent errors.
/sbin/lsmod gives (among some other extranous things)
cmpci 28816 1 (autoclean)
soundcore 4414 4 (autoclean)[cmpci]
My mic is a Telex m-60 (which has some gain) All connections have been
thoroughly checked.
Also "cat /dev/sndstat" returns "no such device". Which is puzzling since I
am able to play files.
To install the drive I used the "sndconfig" program from the console mode.
It recognized the sound card and claimed to have installed it. (cmpci.o
lives under /lib/modules/2.4.7-10/kernel/drivers/sound.) I used the
"sndconfig" program because I was not able to use "make config", "make
xconfig" or "make menuconfig" as make could not find the rules to make any
of these targets. (As you might guess I'm new to this enviroment.)
Thanks