In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, you wrote:
>Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
OK, I'm willing to give that a try, but what device should I can the .au
file to? Do I cat to /dev/dsp0 ?
>>>
>>>Yes, give it a try.
>>
>>
>> I tried it, and nothing happened. No sound came out.
>>
>> I cat'd the
Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
OK, I'm willing to give that a try, but what device should I can the .au
file to? Do I cat to /dev/dsp0 ?
Yes, give it a try.
I tried it, and nothing happened. No sound came out.
I cat'd the file to /dev/dsp0. Was that correct?
Sorry Ronald, I don't know what
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, you wrote:
>>>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.
Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
Also, try doing 'cat /dev/sndstat' to make sure that pcm really does
understand your card.
OK, did that, and I get:
FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
Installed Devices:
pcm0: at io 0x220 irq 5 drq 1:5 bufsz 4096d (1p/1r/0v channels duplex)
Does that all seem OK?
Abso
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, you wrote:
>Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>> 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* d
Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
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.
The card will only act as a CD-player if it is directly connected to the
CD-player b
Greetings,
I have to confess massive ignorance about sound cards. I haven't used
these things much in the past, if at all.
Anyway, I just installed 4.7-RELEASE on a new system that's got an
ancient and crusty ISA Sound Blaster 16 PnP card (that I bought
second-hand) installed in it.
I also ge
