Simon Roberts wrote:

I think I'm being stupid, but I can't work out what I'm doing wrong.

I have a built in soundcard that works fine, and an external USB device (Edirol UA-3FX). The USB device seems to be recognized and Yast is willing to send "test" sound to it. However, Yast doesn't seem to know there's the possiblity of input from it, and none of they sound utilities I've tried (audacity, aplay/arecord, play/record) are able to drive it. All these programs complain that they're unable to "set 8 bit sample" or 16 bit sample. This device, I believe, does 24 bit. Audacity doesn't allow me a list of devices, I have to relink /dev/dsp to /dev/dsp1 and then it complains that it can't set the necessary sample rates.

What should I be doing?

TIA, Cheers, Simon

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You should have 2 devices /dev/dsp and /dev/dsp1. # l /dev/dsp* crw------- 1 lancelot audio 14, 3 2005-08-25 20:31 /dev/dsp crw------- 1 lancelot root 14, 3 2005-03-19 19:36 /dev/dsp0 crw------- 1 lancelot audio 14, 19 2005-08-25 20:31 /dev/dsp1 crw------- 1 lancelot audio 14, 35 2005-03-19 19:36 /dev/dsp2 crw------- 1 lancelot audio 14, 51 2005-03-19 19:36 /dev/dsp3 crw-rw---- 1 root root 55, 0 2005-03-19 19:36 /dev/dsp56k These are the modules I have loaded for the onboard intel8x0 and the usb-audio. barrabas:/ftp/aug05/linux # lsmod|grep snd snd_seq_dummy 3844 0 snd_seq 52240 1 snd_seq_dummy snd_pcm_oss 51744 0 snd_mixer_oss 18560 5 snd_pcm_oss snd_usb_audio 75328 1 snd_usb_lib 15488 1 snd_usb_audio snd_rawmidi 25760 1 snd_usb_lib snd_seq_device 8716 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi snd_hwdep 9376 1 snd_usb_audio snd_intel8x0 32576 5 snd_ac97_codec 79228 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_pcm 91400 4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_usb_audio,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec snd_timer 25348 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd 56452 15 snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_usb_audio,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_hwdep,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 9952 5 snd snd_page_alloc 10632 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm You can set the devices up properly, "rcalsasound restart", "cat xxxx.wav >/dev/dsp" and "cat xxx.wav >/dev/dsp1" to test which is dsp and which is dsp1. I used to have a problem where the onboard used to show up as dsp1 and the usb as dsp after a reboot, i.e swapped, but I can't remember what I did to correct it, probably with YaST. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks