From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 4 12:59:13 2002 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 CAB4A37B401 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 12:59:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow034o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 602F443E6E for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 12:59:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@cream.org) Received: from pcow034o.blueyonder.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Mon, 4 Nov 2002 20:58:53 +0000 Received: from cream.org (unverified [213.48.110.222]) by pcow034o.blueyonder.co.uk (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.9) with ESMTP id ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 20:58:52 +0000 Message-ID: <3DC6DF9F.3010307@cream.org> Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 20:59:11 +0000 From: Andrew Boothman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Novice question about testing sound cards References: <31290.1036402761@monkeys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? Absolutely. >>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.fr/documents/tests/au.html which you might >>also find useful). > > > 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. As I mentioned above, if you have MP3 files then try using a command-line mp3 decoder as well. They also use the /dev/dsp entries. Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message