From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 21 00:16:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2250716A4CE for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 00:16:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91.asp.att.net [63.240.76.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDC1943D46 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 00:16:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@nbritton.org) Received: from nbritton.org (12-223-129-46.client.insightbb.com[12.223.129.46]) by sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91) with SMTP id <20041021001615i91008jo7ue>; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 00:16:16 +0000 Message-ID: <4176FFCF.9050200@nbritton.org> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:16:15 -0500 From: Nikolas Britton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Lindstr=F6m?= , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <41765B2C.5020306@psu.edu> <417660DD.30505@nbritton.org> <87d5zdiht1.fsf@lucien.dreaming> In-Reply-To: <87d5zdiht1.fsf@lucien.dreaming> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Another sound question. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 00:16:17 -0000 Björn Lindström wrote: >Nikolas Britton writes: > > > >>now put a music cd into your cd player and type in (as root) >>"cdcontrol play" if you hear something that sounds like music your >>good to go >> >> > >Actually, that's a pretty bad test, since that will use your CD-ROM for >the sound, rather than the DSP of your sound card. Try to play a PCM >file or something instead. > Yea kind, The sound card still has to convert the pcm data from the CD into music and output it to the speakers though, but you are correct in that it's a bad test because the audio cable on the back of the CD-Rom drive might not be connected to the sound card and if its not (s)he might not have digital playback enabled (can FreeBSD even do that?) but really it came down to the fact that I didn't have time to lookup another way to test it, late for school remember. I think there is a better way to test it in the FreeBSD handbook if anyone cares. LOL, Actually the handbook states the same thing I said: "If all goes well, you should now have a functioning sound card. If your CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive is properly coupled to your sound card, you can put a CD in the drive and play it with cdcontrol(1) : %cdcontrol -f /dev/acd0 play 1" http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html I guess another way would be to compile mp3blaster, or what ever your fav. mp3 player is, from ports and test it with that.