On Sunday 20 February 2005 1:30 pm, Brad Fuller wrote:
> I tried the aoss wrapper and it worked on my setup too -- although the
> recording level was extremely low. But, at least it didn't hang.
> Are you using the latest alsa version?

I'm using the alsa-source package from Debian unstable, as well as the alsa 
stuff in the 2.6.10 kernel. Which means that it's probably quite a bit behind 
the CVS. Still, it does work now.

> In any case, squeak out of the box should record in linux -- at the very
> least, it should never, ever hang. I suppose that there is no one
> looking at this particular issue -- no one "responsible" (as it were)?
>
> This certainly goes on the list of things to fix for multimedia.
> Ned: you have a bit more experience with the lower-guts in Squeak on
> *nix? Do you want to file a bug on mantis?

I don't actually think it's a bug in Squeak, at least in the cases I've seen 
on my system.

As far as I can tell, Squeak is playing by the rules of the OSS sound system. 
But the ALSA OSS emulation has not always been friendly to me.

I have found that when I can get *other* recording apps on my system to work, 
then Squeak does too (at least if I use aoss).

> How should we go about getting this fixed?

Someone should write an ALSA sound plugin, probably. For low latency, probably 
something like Jack would make more sense, but it's not standard with any 
distribution that I've seen.

-- 
Ned Konz
http://bike-nomad.com/squeak/