Hi,
I use the older Ensoniq version of the Soundblaster PCI64. I experience
no difficulties playing .wav files when I "cat <filename>.wav >
/dev/audio1". I believe that /dev/audio assumes a different sample rate,
leading to erroneous playback. No noise though.
One thing you should be aware of when using KDE, is that the SuSE
startkde script (in /etc/X11R6/bin I suppose) seems to test for OSS
driver modules. Since this is not the case with these PCI soundcards,
the test fails and kaudioserver and kwmsound (in /opt/kde/bin) are not
started. The easiest way out is to add these to the Autostart directory
in your personal Desktop entry. Alternatively you can edit the startkde
script. After this the KDE system sounds should work. Don't forget the
mixer settings ;-)
Hope this helps
Tim.
Marcel Donker wrote:
>
> Hi again,
>
> I've got my SoundBlaster PCI64 working last night. Took me a while, but
> on the way learned a lot about Linux and compiling kernels etc. It gets
> nicer every day!
>
> But, I still have a little question. The soundcard works o.k.. I tested
> it with a cd-player program and it played my audio cd's alright. Then
> tested it by playing some .au sounds with cat 'soundfile.au >
> /dev/audio' and it also played the sound alright. But it didn't play
> other sound formats like .wav files (only a lot of noise). I know that
> .wav is a M$ Winblows sound format, but on the other hand KDE only uses
> .wav sounds as systems sounds (??). I can't get them to play either.
>
> My questions:
>
> - Is there something I forgot to set in my KDE configuration?
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