Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 20:59:11 +0000 From: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Novice question about testing sound cards Message-ID: <3DC6DF9F.3010307@cream.org> References: <31290.1036402761@monkeys.com>
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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: <SB16 DSP 4.13> 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
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