From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 26 12: 4:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from news.uni-kl.de (news.uni-kl.de [131.246.137.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C4FA314D3A for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 12:04:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sold@cheasy.de) Received: from kit.uni-kl.de ( mail.kit.uni-kl.de [131.246.168.130] ) by news.uni-kl.de id aa24214 ; 26 Oct 1999 20:30 MESZ Received: from KIT_PRIAMOS/SpoolDir by kit.uni-kl.de (Mercury 1.43); 26 Oct 99 20:28:14 +0200 Received: from SpoolDir by KIT_PRIAMOS (Mercury 1.43); 26 Oct 99 20:28:12 +0200 Received: from router.merowingia.uni-kl.de (131.246.134.2) by kit.uni-kl.de (Mercury 1.43) with ESMTP; 26 Oct 99 20:28:05 +0200 Received: from mero-13a.merowingia.uni-kl.de (mero-13a.merowingia.uni-kl.de [131.246.135.13]) by router.merowingia.uni-kl.de (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA87862; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 20:27:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from sold@localhost) by mero-13a.merowingia.uni-kl.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA02777; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 20:27:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sold) From: Christoph Sold Message-ID: <14357.62067.211630.631604@mero-13a.merowingia.uni-kl.de> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 20:26:59 +0200 (CEST) To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how do i test sound settings? In-Reply-To: <40467798@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 6) "Big Bend" XEmacs Lucid Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sheldon Hearn writes: > On Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:21:29 +0100, J McKitrick wrote: > > > What is a simple way to test my sound settings? > > Get hold of a .au file and cat it into your audio device. Alternatively > playing mp3's is usually a good test. ;-) Alternatively, grab some sound off your CD-ROM drive. I'm using tosha for this task. > > Also, i can't get my CD player to work either. It doesn't produce any > > sound, and it doesn't even play the CD. Maybe permission problems? > > Error messages? Messages in /var/log/messages? Boot probe messages? Additionally, verify the analog audio out out your CD-ROM drive is wired to the CD-in of your sound card. There is no such thing than a default audio path in a PC. -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message