Re: is there a way to probe a sound card's settings to see if it broken

cat /dev/sndstat would be the first thing I tried. Today seems to be my day to refer to howtos...:) http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Sound-HOWTO.html On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Walter Tautz wrote: >I have recently suffered a mysterious failure in my sound >card that was working perfectly (es1371) and the m

is there a way to probe a sound card's settings to see if it broken

I have recently suffered a mysterious failure in my sound card that was working perfectly (es1371) and the modules are still being loaded and I am in the audio group and the permissions are writable etc and YET the damn thing does not work...I should point out i am doing this with a head set and no