From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 4 13: 4:26 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 6149237B406 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 13:04:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from segfault.monkeys.com (segfault.monkeys.com [66.60.157.246]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B03C43E7B for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 13:04:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rfg@monkeys.com) Received: from monkeys.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by segfault.monkeys.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98E4D649A; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 13:04:10 -0800 (PST) To: Andrew Boothman Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Novice question about testing sound cards In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 04 Nov 2002 20:59:11 +0000. <3DC6DF9F.3010307@cream.org> Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 13:04:10 -0800 Message-ID: <59715.1036443850@monkeys.com> From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" 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 In message <3DC6DF9F.3010307@cream.org>, 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.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. I tried it, and nothing happened. No sound came out. I cat'd the file to /dev/dsp0. Was that correct? > 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. OK. I'll try that too. Where can I pick up some short free MP3 files for testing? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message