Re: Simple question.

[James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.co.uk>]

LWATCDR wrote:
> I am just starting to work with Alsa I compiled a test program from one of
> the tutorials and I am getting this error message.
> Unknown Error 126.
> Does anyone know what error 126 is?
> I am using "plughw:0,0" as the device name.
> and this is the segment of code that generates the error.
> 
> for (i = 0; i < 10; ++i) {
> if ((err = snd_pcm_writei (playback_handle, buf, 128)) != 128) {
>     fprintf (stderr, "write to audio interface failed (%s)\n", snd_strerror
> (err));
>     exit (1);
>     }
> }
> 
> 
> I am running Suse 9.3+kde 3.5
> 
> I hope this is the correct list to ask this.
> 

If the err > 0, it tells you how many frames were written to the sound 
card. As you can see here, 126 frames were written, probably due to 
sound card's hardware buffer being full.

James



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