On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 3:25 PM Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de wrote:
On Fri, 11 Jun 2021 10:43:01 +0200, Muni Sekhar wrote:
On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 1:19 PM Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de wrote:
On Fri, 11 Jun 2021 09:02:44 +0200, Muni Sekhar wrote:
Hi all,
I am using a USB sound card(snd-usb-audio), and it fails while doing the audio recording "arecord: pcm_read:2032: read error: Input/output error".
I noticed recording(arecord) audio data on a USB sound card fails at SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_READI_FRAMES is giving EIO.
Can someone please clarify when the kernel returns EIO for Ioctl SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_READI_FRAMES? and is there a workaround for this?
It's a problem of either your device (e.g. USB device firmware) or the kernel. Do you get any relevant kernel error messages?
dmesg log does not indicate any such error messages when arecord fails.
Then it's likely a debug print in PCM core, which is suppressed as default. You can enable it via dyndbg stuff. It won't help much for diagnose at this stage, though.
Is it snd-pcm.ko ? In my system, this module gets loaded as mentioned below: alsa-base.conf:15:install snd-pcm /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-pcm $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-pcm-oss ; : ; }
Is there a way to prove it as a USB device firmware issue or kernel issue?
You can check strace output, for example. The PCM core is supposed to be bug-free regarding this, so it's about USB-audio driver, and the problem is specific to your device (other USB-audio devices work), hence it's very likely a firmware problem.
Please find the strace output in the attached file "strace_op.txt" file. Does it gives any more information?
Please find the alsamixer output in the attached file alsamixer_output.png file.
The mixer output has nothing to do with the PCM problem.
Takashi