On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Veli-Pekka Tatila wrote: > Andor Demarteau wrote: > > on my systems it points to /dev/dsp0 > Ok will check thatt. Umm how exactly? I tried: > > file /dev/dsp and > ls -la /dev/dsp* > but neither of them showed me the target of the link as far as I can tell. > THere are no arrows "->" at least. > A silly newbie question, how do I show where a symbolic link is pointing? I > read ls --help and ln --help with no luck so far. your ls -al shoudl show it. You will se lrwxrwxrwx at the start of the line and /dev/dsp -> /dev/dsp0 at the end of it.
> > dunno, I don't know Redhat tools too well. > There was some nice one called soundconfig or something. I think I'll go > ahead and try it. > > I think apt-cahce is even better, never knew it existed :) > Well, Mario just told me on this list the other day, I wouldn't have known > otherwise. :) read that post too. > > aumix works fine, but ALSA has it's on mixer-tools. > apt-get install aumix > went fine > However, issuing aumix simply says: > aumix: error opening mixer ack, this means that there's no soundcard active. > Nice, it doesn't even tell me which mixer it tried. That's about as > informative as the message "database changed", that you get in MySQL, > <smiley> /dev/mixer :) > -- Andor Demarteau E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] student computer science www: http://www.students.cs.uu.nl/~ademarte/ UU based & VU guest-student jabber,icq,msn,voip: do ask ;) ----------- chairman Stichting Studiereizen STORM www: http://www.stistusto.nl vice-chairman USF Studentenbelangen executive committee 2002-2003
