No micphone on OPENSUSE 11.3

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Hi,
There is no mic on my OPENSUE 11.3. I find a link on the diagnosis:
No microphone

The problem is that the output of the command:

arecord -vv -f cd test.wav

is not the expected, see below. There is no test.wav file at the current folder.

How to go next? Thanks.

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:/usr/bin> arecord -vv -f cd test.wav
Recording WAVE ‘test.wav’ : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo
Plug PCM: ALSA <-> PulseAudio PCM I/O Plugin
Its setup is:
stream : CAPTURE
access : RW_INTERLEAVED
format : S16_LE
subformat : STD
channels : 2
rate : 44100
exact rate : 44100 (44100/1)
msbits : 16
buffer_size : 22050
period_size : 5512
period_time : 125000
tstamp_mode : NONE
period_step : 1
avail_min : 5512
period_event : 0
start_threshold : 1
stop_threshold : 22050
silence_threshold: 0
silence_size : 0
boundary : 1445068800
test.wav: Permission denied

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Your mic is turn on ?

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On 2011-11-06 02:36, freerjw wrote:

Use code tags to post computer output. Advanced editor, #.

> ,
> :/usr/bin> arecord -vv -f cd test.wav

…

> test.wav: Permission denied

You have no permissions to write file test.wav into directory /usr/bin,
which is as it should be. Run “cd” to change to your user home directory
and try again.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

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In addition to your not having permissions to write a file ‘test.wav’, … note also YOU need to provide the file ‘test.wav’. It does NOT come with your system by default. So grab a .wav file of your choice, and rename it to test.wav, and put it in /home/yourusername, and test from the directory /home/yourusername

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On 2011-11-06 09:26, oldcpu wrote:
>
> In addition to your not having permissions to write a file ‘test.wav’,
> … note also YOU need to provide the file ‘test.wav’.

Nononono.

arecord creates the file, recording sound.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

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arrgggg … I’m bad. I was thinking ‘aplay’ and not ‘arecord’.

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On 2011-11-06 17:16, oldcpu wrote:
> arrgggg … I’m bad. I was thinking ‘aplay’ and not ‘arecord’.

They have the same manual page…

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)