> time cat /usr/pkg/lib/python2.5/test/audiotest.au > /dev/audio > => > [ silence ] > real 0m2.912s
How large is that file? In particular, if it's not pretty close to 23296 (2.912*8000) bytes, something is wrong. > dmesg | egrep -i 'sound|audio' > => > [ nothing ] Assuming that dmesg by itself produces reasonable-looking output (ie, so long as dmesg itself isn't broken), this indicates your sound hardware isn't hooked up to the audio subsystem. I would expect the cat to /dev/audio to fail in that case - probably with some variety of "device not configured" - but I'm regularly surprised by things that work (or fail) in ways I did not expect. Perhaps post a pointer to full dmesg? Someone might be able to say something useful based on it. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B