[Alsa-user] mono recording from microphone

Hello everyone, How to do mono recording from microphone? arecord -c2 file works alright, but arecord -c1 file records only silence. I have a SounBlaster Live! sound card and am using Ubuntu 6.06. Is there some asoundrc magic that will help? Or some other trick? Thanks. ___

[Alsa-user] How do I define a slave?

Hello. I have this in my .asoundrc: pcm.!default { type hw card 2 } pcm_slave.51to40 { type route slave.pcm "surround51" slave.channels 6 # Front and rear ttable.0.0 1 ttable.1.1 1 ttable.2.2 1 ttable.3.3 1 # Center channel routing (routed to front-left and front-ri