Stephen Gran wrote: > > OK - I am up for this! Unfortunatly I do not know how. I can think of no > > occassion when I have tried to get sound from a command line program. > > Can anyone tell me a command line program that I can install to test to > > see if the sound module is OK. A CD player or just an exotic type of > > beep will do! > > > > Keith > cdcd for cd's, mpg123 or mpg321 (different programs) for mp3's or > whatever. See what happens. You may also want to make sure your user > is in the audio group. If those work fine, then you've run into the > Gnome sound problem, probably caused by Gnome trying to run sound on one > sound server (esd? - I think) when a different one is installed/running. > Check the archives - someone else had this problem a month or two ago.
CDCD - OK got that, ran that - total silence! :-( The user is in "audio" - I also tried it as "root", the es1371 module was enabled in /etc/modules, but silence. Seems to be not a problem to lay at the feet of Gnome, but certainly someting I need some more guidance on -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Keith O'Connell | "That which does not kill Maidstone, Kent (UK) | us, usually still hurts. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | That's just life, I'm afraid"
