Re: How to debug microphone?

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 13:18:21 +0200, Felix Natter wrote:

> Volkan YAZICI writes:
> 
>> 2) Start arecord with vumeter enabled, that is,
>>
>>      arecord -V /tmp/foo.wav
>>
>>    and see if vumeter changes.
> 
> The -V option is not recognized on Lenny (and -v doesn't produce a
> vumeter).

Try with a more simple approach:

# will start recording from the default input source
arecord -d 10 /tmp/foo.wav

And when it finishes, play it with:

aplay /tmp/foo.wav

Greetings,

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Camaleón