On Thursday 03 November 2011 03:44:08 Max Herrgard wrote: > I've played music with vlc, mplayer, mpg321, mpg123, xmms and audacious, > most recently with mplayer. Some programs (I think at least mpg321) require > you to install an audio library to work, like libao-*. > > Did you turn up the volume? The volume with my old Soundblaster Live! is > always sky-high, but maybe not yours. Try mixer(8).
I tried installing those but got this error: mplayer-share-1.0rc20100913nb3 is not available on the repository proceed ? [y/N] n pkgin: mplayer-share-1.0rc20100913nb3 is not available on the repository # pkgin up database for http://avalon.dragonflybsd.org/packages/i386/DragonFly-2.13/pkgsrc-2011Q3/All is up-to-date On Thursday 03 November 2011 04:31:21 Matthias Rampke wrote: > The BSD soundsystem is OSS compatible; so you want either something with > OSS output or something that uses libao; IIRC you also need to install > audio/libao-oss for those. > > A quick test to check if sound works is "cat < /dev/urandom > /dev/pcm0" > (expected result: noise :)) I did that (with dd) when I loaded the modules and connected the other computer's speakers. But how do I test the microphone? Pierre -- Don't buy a French car in Holland. It may be a citroen.