/* This is a very simple utility which will dump out some of your soundcard hardware parameters. I found this very useful in finding appropriate values for my .asoundrc file to get atcleci.so working too many underruns, which result in duplicate utterances at the end of speech chunks. I have been a bit excessive in error handling, but figured if someone was having problems, this might provide the clue they need Compile with gcc -o soundHwParams soundHwParams.c -lasound Tim Cross 15/05/06 */ #define ALSA_PCM_NEW_HW_PARAMS_API #include #include void showErrorAndExit(int, char *); void showErrorAndExit(int err, char *msg) { fprintf(stderr, msg, snd_strerror(err)); exit(1); } int main() { int result; snd_pcm_t *handle = NULL; snd_pcm_hw_params_t *params = NULL; snd_pcm_uframes_t frames; snd_pcm_access_t access; snd_pcm_format_t format; unsigned int rate = 44100; unsigned int val, val2; int dir = 0; result = snd_pcm_open(&handle, "default", SND_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK, 0); if (result < 0) showErrorAndExit(result, "Error: Unable to open PCM device: %s\n"); snd_pcm_hw_params_alloca(¶ms); result = snd_pcm_hw_params_any(handle, params); if (result < 0) showErrorAndExit(result, "Error: Cannot read HW params: %s\n"); result = snd_pcm_hw_params_set_access(handle, params, SND_PCM_ACCESS_RW_INTERLEAVED); if (result < 0) showErrorAndExit(result, "Could not set access method: %s\n"); result = snd_pcm_hw_params_set_format(handle, params, SND_PCM_FORMAT_S16_LE); if (result < 0) showErrorAndExit(result, "Error: Could not set output format: %s\n"); result = snd_pcm_hw_params_set_channels(handle, params, 1); if (result < 0) showErrorAndExit(result, "Error: Cannot set to 1 channel: %s\n"); result = snd_pcm_hw_params_set_rate_near(handle, params, &rate, &dir); if (result < 0) showErrorAndExit(result, "Error: Could not set rate: %s\n"); result = snd_pcm_hw_params(handle, params); if (result < 0) showErrorAndExit(result, "Error: Could not write HW params: %s\n"); printf("Card Parameters\n"); printf("%30s: %s\n", "Alsa Library Version", snd_asoundlib_version()); result = snd_pcm_hw_params_get_access(params, &access); if (result < 0) { showErrorAndExit(result, "Error: Could not retrieve access mode: %s\n"); } else { printf("%30s: %s\n", "Access Method", snd_pcm_access_name(access)); } result = snd_pcm_hw_params_get_format(params, &format); if (result < 0) { showErrorAndExit(result, "Error: Unable to retrieve format type: %d\n"); } else { printf("%30s: %s\n", "Format", snd_pcm_format_name(format)); } result = snd_pcm_hw_params_get_channels(params, &val); if (result < 0) { showErrorAndExit(result, "Error: Unable to retrieve channel count: %s\n"); } else { printf("%30s: %d\n", "Channels", val); } result = snd_pcm_hw_params_get_rate(params, &val, &dir); if (result < 0) { showErrorAndExit(result, "Error: Unable to retrieve rate: %s\n"); } else { printf("%30s: %d bps\n", "Rate", val); } result = snd_pcm_hw_params_get_period_time(params, &val, &dir); if (result < 0) { showErrorAndExit(result, "Error: Unable to retrieve period time: %s\n"); } else { printf("%30s: %d us\n", "Period Time", val); } result = snd_pcm_hw_params_get_period_size(params, &frames, &dir); if (result < 0) { showErrorAndExit(result, "Error: Unable to retrieve period size: %s\n"); } else { printf("%30s: %d frames\n", "Period Size", (int) frames); } result = snd_pcm_hw_params_get_buffer_time(params, &val, &dir); if (result < 0) { showErrorAndExit(result, "Error: Unable to retrieve buffer time: %s\n"); } else { printf("%30s: %d us\n", "Buffer Time", val); } result = snd_pcm_hw_params_get_buffer_size(params, &frames); if (result < 0) { showErrorAndExit(result, "Error: Unable to retrieve buffer size: %s\n"); } else { printf("%30s: %d frames\n", "Buffer Size", (int) frames); } result = snd_pcm_hw_params_get_periods(params, &val, &dir); if (result < 0) { showErrorAndExit(result, "Error: Unable to get buffer periods: %s\n"); } else { printf("%30s: %d frames\n", "Periods per Buffer", val); } result = snd_pcm_hw_params_get_rate_numden(params, &val, &val2); if (result < 0) { showErrorAndExit(result, "Error: Unable to get rate numerator/denominator: %s\n"); } else { printf("%30s: %d/%d bps\n", "Exact Rate", val, val2); } val = snd_pcm_hw_params_get_sbits(params); printf("%30s: %d\n", "Significant Bits", val); result = snd_pcm_hw_params_get_tick_time(params, &val, &dir); if (result < 0) { showErrorAndExit(result, "Error: Could not retrieve tick time: %s\n"); } else { printf("%30s: %d\n", "Tick Time", val); } printf("Card Capabilities\n"); val = snd_pcm_hw_params_is_batch(params); printf("%30s: %s\n", "Batch Transfer", (val ? "Yes" : "No")); val = snd_pcm_hw_params_is_block_transfer(params); printf("%30s: %s\n", "Block Transfer", (val ? "Yes" : "No")); val = snd_pcm_hw_params_is_double(params); printf("%30s: %s\n", "Double Buffering", (val ? "Yes" : "No")); val = snd_pcm_hw_params_is_half_duplex(params); printf("%30s: %s\n", "Half Duplex Only", (val ? "Yes" : "No")); val = snd_pcm_hw_params_is_joint_duplex(params); printf("%30s: %s\n", "Joint Duplex Capable", (val ? "Yes" : "No")); val = snd_pcm_hw_params_can_overrange(params); printf("%30s: %s\n", "Support Overrange Detection", (val ? "Yes" : "No")); val = snd_pcm_hw_params_can_mmap_sample_resolution(params); printf("%30s: %s\n", "Support Sample-res Mmap", (val ? "Yes" : "No")); val = snd_pcm_hw_params_can_pause(params); printf("%30s: %s\n", "Can Pause", (val ? "Yes" : "No")); val = snd_pcm_hw_params_can_resume(params); printf("%30s: %s\n", "Can Resume", (val ? "Yes" : "No")); val = snd_pcm_hw_params_can_sync_start(params); printf("%30s: %s\n", "Support Sync Start", (val ? "Yes" : "No")); result = snd_pcm_close(handle); if (result < 0) showErrorAndExit(result, "Error: Could not close PCM device: %s\n"); return 0; }