In case anyone is interested, the most recent set of fixes that Takashi Iwai put in the alsa cvs have now fixed the problems with recording audio (on at least the screamer chipset). I can use the following method to record...
a .asoundrc with... pcm.copy { type plug slave { pcm hw } route_policy copy } then... arecord -d 10 -f cd -t wav -D copy foobar.wav (speak low if you don't adjust your recording levels with the mixer) and then... aplay -c 1 -t raw -r 22050 -f mu_law foobar works great here. Of course you'll need to update alsa-source, alsa-libs and alsa-utils from the cvs for this to work. Nice. Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]