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I get a “/dev/audio requested fragsize ignored” error message when I try to record. What can I do?

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I get a “/dev/audio requested fragsize ignored” error message when I try to record. What can I do?

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This error message indicates a buggy audio driver. It usually only occurs when attempting to record and it can happen in both the OSS drivers and the ALSA OSS emulation drivers. Audio playback typically works fine. The audio driver is broken and it needs to be fixed. Unfortunately this is difficult and time consuming work. Luckily there are a number of things you can try to get baudline recording: • Try recording with all the different sample rates. Many times a couple rates will refuse to work while others will work fine. • Next try starting baudline with different fragment sizes: • baudline -fragsize 6 • baudline -fragsize 7 • baudline -fragsize 8 • baudline -fragsize 9 • baudline -fragsize 10 • Then try varying the number of input fragments, for example: • baudline -infrags 8 • baudline -infrags 4 • baudline -infrags 2 • This can also work for a playback problem, just substitute -outfrags for -infrags. • If still no luck then try combinations of -fragsize and -infrags. There might b

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