Did you try playing ordinary wav files? Gilboa
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 17:20, Amir Tal wrote: > On Thursday 24 July 2003 10:27, you wrote: > > ok, this is weird : > mplayer just played an mp3 file for me from terminal (mplayer filename). > all other players are not working (xmms, kaboodle, xine) > any idea ? > tal. > > > > Please do $ls -l /dev/dsp. > > > > Gilboa > > > > On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 17:00, Amir Tal wrote: > > > On Thursday 24 July 2003 10:07, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > > > > > no i dont. > > > i didnt know that using "cat" will play the file....!??! > > > it just gave me a giberish output in my terminal. > > > > > > tal. > > > > > > > Ignore arts for a second. > > > > Do you hear anything when you cat <wav_file> > /dev/dsp (as root)? > > > > > > > > Gilboa > > > > > > > > On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 16:35, Amir Tal wrote: > > > > > got myself a used dell inspiron 4000 for a (very) good price, and > > > > > loaded debian sid on it. > > > > > it used to run winXP before i formatted it, and sound worked just > > > > > fine, so this is not a hardware problem. > > > > > the debian mailing list describes a similar case, but i think my > > > > > problem is a little more serious then that : > > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2002/debian-laptop-200206/msg00 > > > > >330. html i am way pass that stage... > > > > > > > > > > configuration : > > > > > > > > > > $ lspci |grep ESS > > > > > 00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1983S > > > > > Maestro-3i PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 10) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > # lsmod > > > > > Module Size Used by Not tainted > > > > > ide-scsi 7456 0 > > > > > sg 24420 0 (autoclean) > > > > > maestro3 25416 0 (autoclean) > > > > > ac97_codec 9568 0 (autoclean) [maestro3] > > > > > soundcore 3204 2 (autoclean) [maestro3] > > > > > 3c574_cs 10336 1 > > > > > ds 6624 2 [3c574_cs] > > > > > i82365 22384 2 > > > > > pcmcia_core 41376 0 [3c574_cs ds i82365] > > > > > agpgart 29792 0 (unused) > > > > > cpuid 1184 0 (unused) > > > > > apm 9116 0 > > > > > ncpfs 32224 0 (unused) > > > > > nfsd 42816 0 (unused) > > > > > isa-pnp 27400 0 (unused) > > > > > keybdev 1664 0 (unused) > > > > > usbkbd 2848 0 (unused) > > > > > input 3040 0 [keybdev usbkbd] > > > > > usb-uhci 20676 0 (unused) > > > > > usbcore 48000 0 [usbkbd usb-uhci] > > > > > > > > > > tried the maestro module from my 2.4.18 and the alsa modules. aumix > > > > > is loading with no errors, logs show nothing interesting. > > > > > restarting arts from Kcontrol does not give errors like it usally > > > > > does with hardware\permitions problems... > > > > > > > > > > help....? > > > > > > ================================================================= > > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > > > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]