Re: Sound testing

2000-10-06 Thread Timothy Bedding
Krzys Majewski wrote > I use "saytime". For example: I tried running saytime but it did not work. Nothing sounding like the time came out of the speaker. cat /bin/bash > /dev/audio gives white noise from the speaker so something is working. Is there likely to be problem with my installation

Re: Sound testing

2000-09-26 Thread Timothy Bedding
Chris wrote > /dev/sndstat was never meant to be relied upon and is now listed as > obsolete in my kernel source (2.4.0-test7). Has it been superceded by something else? If so, what? Tim

Re: Sound testing

2000-09-26 Thread Krzys Majewski
Timothy Bedding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to get my Sound Blaster card working. > > Can anyone suggest a simple test program that I can > run to prove that it is working? I use "saytime". For example: while true do saytime sleep 1 done I've been playing with sound lately (so

Re: Sound testing

2000-09-25 Thread Chris Gray
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 08:15:18PM +0100, Timothy Bedding wrote: > I upgraded to a 2.2 kernel and got the sound card > working to a limited extent. > > However, /dev/sndstat is not working. > > Any suggestions? > > # cat /dev/sndstat > cat: /dev/sndstat: No such device /dev/sndstat was never me

Re: Sound testing

2000-09-25 Thread Timothy Bedding
I upgraded to a 2.2 kernel and got the sound card working to a limited extent. However, /dev/sndstat is not working. Any suggestions? # cat /dev/sndstat cat: /dev/sndstat: No such device Tim

Re: Sound testing

2000-09-24 Thread David Fisher
> I am trying to get my Sound Blaster card working. > > > I seem to have four different possible sockets > for the speakers. > > black, green, red, blue > > Any idea which of these is the one to use? > You haven't told us which model, but my PCI128 uses the green jack for the speakers, with

Re: Sound testing

2000-09-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> However, the documentation does not give the default > settings for I/O Base and IRQ. I think this is why the > device is not configured. > you say, it's an pci card. so it should be fully auto-detected. if it's not, then you probably use the wrong driver. sb16pci (aka sb128) needs the es1371 dr

Re: Sound testing

2000-09-24 Thread Timothy Bedding
Michael Merten > It has no amplified output for > speakers, which is what your black jack is (i believe). I use > the green jack with a pair of cheapo amplified speakers Thanks for that. I located the documentation for Blaster 16 PCI and it seems that the green line out is what I need. Howev

Re: Sound testing

2000-09-24 Thread Michael Merten
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000 17:08:30 +0100, Timothy Bedding wrote: >I am trying to get my Sound Blaster card working. > >Can anyone suggest a simple test program that I can >run to prove that it is working? > >I seem to have four different possible sockets >for the speakers. > >black, green, red, blue I

Re: Sound testing

2000-09-24 Thread steph
dress it in black. 8) Alpha

Re: Sound testing

2000-09-24 Thread Timothy Bedding
Oswald Buddenhagen wrote > not good ... try /dev/dsp > if you miss this one too, then something is wrong with your setup. > then you should have a look at MAKEDEV. I have created audio. Now I get ~> cat /bin/bash > /dev/audio /dev/audio: Device not configured. Any ideas? Is it possible that

Re: Sound testing

2000-09-24 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 05:41:33PM +0100, Timothy Bedding wrote: > What does this sound like? Like hell, I'm sure. ;-) > I have no /dev/audio. What do I do? You've probably got a newer soundcard like most of us. Use /dev/dsp instead. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sound testing

2000-09-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> > cat /bin/bash >/dev/audio :-)=) > > this sound really rocks! *lol* > > What does this sound like? > similar to a modem ... > I have no /dev/audio. What do I do? > not good ... try /dev/dsp if you miss this one too, then something is wrong with your setup. then you should have a look at MA

Re: Sound testing

2000-09-24 Thread Timothy Bedding
Oswald Buddenhagen wrote > cat /bin/bash >/dev/audio :-)=) > this sound really rocks! *lol* What does this sound like? I have no /dev/audio. What do I do? > there are usually tiny icons engraved into the plate the sockets stick out. > my card uses the black one for speaker output. Yes, I ha

Re: Sound testing

2000-09-24 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 05:08:30PM +0100, Timothy Bedding wrote: > I am trying to get my Sound Blaster card working. > > Can anyone suggest a simple test program that I can > run to prove that it is working? I'm not sure but I think you can just cat a .wav file and redirect it to the device.

Re: Sound testing

2000-09-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Can anyone suggest a simple test program that I can > run to prove that it is working? > cat /bin/bash >/dev/audio :-)=) this sound really rocks! *lol* > I seem to have four different possible sockets for the speakers. > > black, green, red, blue > > Any idea which of these is the one to us

Sound testing

2000-09-24 Thread Timothy Bedding
I am trying to get my Sound Blaster card working. Can anyone suggest a simple test program that I can run to prove that it is working? I seem to have four different possible sockets for the speakers. black, green, red, blue Any idea which of these is the one to use? Regards Tim