From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 Description of problem: Terminal command line enter: arecord -f dat -d 20 -D hw:0,0 test.wav outputs a file on first execution of the command. Playback of that output file with the command, aplay -f dat test.wav produces lowgrade noise and perhaps 20 lines of text to stdout which reads roughly along the lines of the following: underrun!!! (at least .0nn microsec input/output error) where .0nn is a value ranging from .022 - .045. Running the arecord command a second time generates the error message - arecord:pcm_read:1164: read error and an ouput file with no content. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): alsa-utils-1.0.3-1.i386.rpm How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. $ arecord -f dat -d 20 -D hw:0,0 test.wav 2. $ aplay -f dat test.wav 3. Actual Results: Production of unuseable .wav file is reproducible everytime. Expected Results: Production of a useable .wav file that fairly reproduces the sound one attempts to record. Additional info: Identical or similar problems have been encountered by at least four individuals, one of whom has since installed FC3 and is now able to use arecord in that distribution which included alsa-utils-1.0.6-3 instead of 1.0.3-1. Request FC2 update to alsa 1.0.6-3 or later packages as a fix. The other sound recording application available, gnome-sound-recorder, is also inoperable.
I run FC3 with alsa 1.0.6 and I can't either record with my AW320 soundcard, so an update of FC2 to version 1.0.6 will most probably not help.
Fedora Core 2 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC3 updates or in the FC4 test release, reopen and change the version to match.
Could you check it on FC4?