From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 4 17:32:22 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 D14FA37B401 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 17:32:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow034o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBDF743E42 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 17:32:14 -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); Tue, 5 Nov 2002 01:30:22 +0000 Received: from cream.org (unverified [62.31.98.97]) by pcow034o.blueyonder.co.uk (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.9) with ESMTP id ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 01:30:22 +0000 Message-ID: <3DC71F42.7070401@cream.org> Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 01:30:42 +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: <59715.1036443850@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: >>>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? Sorry Ronald, I don't know what else to check from there. My advice would be to try an mp3 or other media player. >>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? I'm sure if you Google around, you will find something. That's how I found the .au file. Sorry I can't be more help. Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message