From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mduncan@hal.psislidell.com Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 18:18:47 +0000 Subject: Basic (?) Sound Help Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org Gasp!!, I'm having a little trouble w/ sound on my Linux (RedHat 5.1) machine. I've gone through the HOWTO and commands like: cat crash.au >/dev/audio and cat endoftheworld >/dev/dsp don't produce any error messages, but I CAN'T HEAR ANYTHING through the speakers (which are on w/ the volume turned up incidentally). Also the results of: dd bs=8k count=4 sample.au produce a non-empty file. There is no microphone, however, so I can't tell if the output makes any sense. I've booted in DOS and used the vibra16 diagnose utility to confirm the interrupt and DMA settings. I can play CD's w/ XCDplay. I just can't figure out why this isn't working. I've copied the results of dmesg and results of "cat /dev/sndstat" below in case that tells anyone somthing I'm not picking up on. Also, for what it's worth, I first noticed this problem after having installed XCDroast which informed me that it couldn't talk to /dev/dsp. Does anyone understand this???? Are there any other diagnostic tests I can do???? Do I HAVE to re-build the kernel to fix it??? Any help is greatly appreciated. Pertinant parts of dmesg: Sound initialization started at 0x220 irq 5 dma 1,5 at 0x388 Sound initialization complete Results of "cat /dev/sndstat" Sound Driver:3.5.4-960630 (Sun Sep 13 09:37:20 CDT 1998 root, Linux thoe.psislidell.com 2.0.35 #1 Sat Sep 12 16:31:39 CDT 1998 i686 unknown) Kernel: Linux thoe.psislidell.com 2.0.35 #1 Sun Sep 13 09:38:23 CDT 1998 i686 Config options: a80002 Installed drivers: Type 1: OPL-2/OPL-3 FM Type 2: Sound Blaster Type 7: SB MPU-401 Card config: Sound Blaster at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1,5 OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388 drq 0 Audio devices: 0: Sound Blaster 16 (4.13) Synth devices: 0: Yamaha OPL-3 Midi devices: Timers: 0: System clock Mixers: 0: Sound Blaster ---------------------------------- Mike Duncan Planning Systems Inc. Ph: 504-639-3537 Fx: 504-649-0480 E-Mail: mduncan@mail.psislidell.com Date: 21-Jan-99 Time: 12:00:52 ----------------------------------