On 10/08/2007 12:41 AM, Mark Constable wrote:

Any chance that your program could take an arg to investigate other cards (or perhaps plugins) and also return an errno so it could be used in scripts ?

Only if you promise to never drop CCs again (although I don't know about plugins).

# gcc -W -Wall -o snd_rate snd_rate.c -l asound snd_rate.c: In function 'main': snd_rate.c:14: warning: the address of ‘params’ will always evaluate as 'true'

That's the ALSA snd_pcm_hw_params_alloca(). No such warning here, but I've made it a regular malloc.

# snd_rate snd_pcm_open: Device or resource busy

In fact, why isn't there a single simple "alsainfo" type program that tells a user some (or a lot) of info about their hardware and alsa-lib install ?

I guess because noone wrote one :-)

It seems by the way that dir != 0 _can_ be returned for hw devices, and this just ignores it. Just some rounding issue I guess.

Rene.

/* gcc -W -Wall -o alsa-rate alsa-rate.c -lasound */

#include <stdio.h> #include <alsa/asoundlib.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { char *device; snd_pcm_t *handle; snd_pcm_hw_params_t *params; unsigned int min; unsigned int max; int dir; int err;

device = argc > 1 ? argv[1] : "hw:0,0";

err = snd_pcm_open(&handle, device, SND_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK, 0); if (err < 0) { fprintf(stderr, "snd_pcm_open: %s\n", snd_strerror(err)); return err; } err = snd_pcm_hw_params_malloc(&params); if (err < 0) { fprintf(stderr, "snd_pcm_hw_params_alloc: %s\n", snd_strerror(err)); return err; } err = snd_pcm_hw_params_any(handle, params); if (err < 0) { fprintf(stderr, "snd_pcm_hw_params_any: %s\n", snd_strerror(err)); return err; } err = snd_pcm_close(handle); if (err < 0) { fprintf(stderr, "snd_pcm_close: %s\n", snd_strerror(err)); return err; } err = snd_pcm_hw_params_get_rate_min(params, &min, &dir); if (err < 0) { fprintf(stderr, "snd_pcm_hw_params_get_rate_min: %s\n", snd_strerror(err)); return err; } err = snd_pcm_hw_params_get_rate_max(params, &max, &dir); if (err < 0) { fprintf(stderr, "snd_pcm_hw_params_get_rate_max: %s\n", snd_strerror(err)); return err; } snd_pcm_hw_params_free(params);

printf("%u-%u\n", min, max); return 0; }