On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Bill Moseley wrote: > Argh! - HOWTO overload. > > I've got a Sound Blaster Live Value. I'm running Debian Testing. I've > build my own kernel 2.4.17 from kernel-source package. I did build the > emu10k1 module. I ran modconf and selected emu10k1. emu10k1 loads fine > without errors. I can cp some .wav files to /dev/audio and hear the > sound. Some .wav files sound ok, some others sound bad.
I and others have found that cat'ing to /dev/audio will sound bad but playing the same file with one program or another (try xanim) will sound good. IE, don't use writing directly to /dev as a test. ...RickM...