[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#607813: arecord: can't record from usb mic

[Andres Cimmarusti]

Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.0.23-3
Severity: important

I was trying to test recording a simple wav file with my usb microphone, 
but arecord just fails: (this didn't happen when I was running lenny)

$ arecord -f cd -D hw:2,0 -d 20 test.wav
Recording WAVE 'test.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo
arecord: set_params:1059: Channels count non available

$ cat /proc/asound/cards 
 0 [IXP            ]: ATIIXP - ATI IXP
                      ATI IXP rev 2 with Cx20468-31 at 0xc0003400, irq 17
 1 [Modem          ]: ATIIXP-MODEM - ATI IXP Modem
                      ATI IXP Modem rev 2 at 0xc0003800, irq 17
 2 [U0x46d0x991    ]: USB-Audio - USB Device 0x46d:0x991
                      USB Device 0x46d:0x991 at usb-0000:00:13.2-1, high speed

$ arecord --list-devices
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: IXP [ATI IXP], device 0: ATI IXP AC97 [ATI IXP AC97]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Modem [ATI IXP Modem], device 0: ATI IXP MC97 [ATI IXP MC97]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: U0x46d0x991 [USB Device 0x46d:0x991], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages alsa-utils depends on:
ii  libasound2                1.0.23-2.1     shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libc6                     2.11.2-7       Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libncursesw5              5.7+20100313-4 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  linux-sound-base          1.0.23+dfsg-2  base package for ALSA and OSS soun
ii  lsb-base                  3.2-23.1       Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  module-init-tools         3.12-1         tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  udev                      164-3          /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  whiptail                  0.52.11-1      Displays user-friendly dialog boxe

Versions of packages alsa-utils recommends:
ii  alsa-base                  1.0.23+dfsg-2 ALSA driver configuration files
ii  pciutils                   1:3.1.7-6     Linux PCI Utilities

alsa-utils suggests no packages.

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