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Date:      Fri, 29 Sep 2000 07:49:27 +1100
From:      Danny <dannyh@idx.com.au>
To:        "Elitetek" <freebsd@tekrealm.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: how
Message-ID:  <00092907502503.00344@freebsd.freebsd.org>
References:  <002101c0285e$67ce3ce0$da21bc40@tekrealm.net>

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Here is a way to test your soundcard from the console

1) Place a Music CD into your CDROM drive
2) Login as root
3) Type in cdcontrol -f /dev/acd0 
4) Type play




On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Elitetek wrote:
> can i test a sound card from console? i know mixer, and that shows it should
> be working
> 
> but i remember there being a trick to pipe a wave file to the sound device
> to make it play
> 
> i know this is wrong, but i coulda sworn it was something like this:
> 
> more mysound.wav > /dev/pcm or /dev/snd0
> 
> but i know it wasnt the more command that did it
> 
> can anyone shed some like on this?
> 
> 
> EliteTek
> 
> 
> 
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