Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
The card will only act as a CD-player if it is directly connected to the CD-player by a seperate cable, you mention below that you haven't got one. (I'm sure your local computer shop could supply you with one for almost nothing).The card is now clearly recognized on boot up, however I'm still not 100% that it's working. I tried using a couple of CD player utilities and no sound came out if the speakers.
Nope. The DSP devices don't understand mp3, you need an mp3 decoder to do that but there are command-line (non-X) tools that play mp3s - check out audio/mpg123 (or something like that).Ok, so question: What's the simplest and easiest way to simply check to see if a given sound card is working or not?I gather that it is _not_ as simple as just cat'ing some .mp3 file to one of the /dev/dsp* device files, correct?
Also, try doing 'cat /dev/sndstat' to make sure that pcm really does understand your card.
I'm not totally sure about this, but I think that you can dump audio file in the 'au' format directly to devices. A test au format file can be found on http://www.cti.ecp.fr/documents/a_sound.au (This was linked to from http://www.cti.ecp.fr/documents/tests/au.html which you might also find useful).
You also might want to check that your speakers actually work by connecting them up to your hi-fi or something. I've lost count of the number of times I've spent hours trying to find a fault in completely the *wrong* piece of hardware. :-)
Best of luck.
Andrew.
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