Re: /dev/audio, /dev/dsp not running for an es1371

On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Jean Francois Ortolo wrote:
> Hello
>   I have Linux RedHat6.1 installed, with a Creative Lab
> SoundBlaster PCI 128 in the box. It's not a clone,
> the chip is a Creative Lab chip.

that's exactly my setup as far as that goes.

>   The sndconfig detects an Ensoniq card, for which it
> installs an es1371 module in /etc/conf.modules
>   While doing this, the generated speech is
> well heard by me, so I might believe that
> all is all right.

didn't work for me. I compiled the driver into the kernel instead.

>   However, a 'cat /dev/sndstat' then reports
> "no device with this type", and the /dev/audio0
> and /dev/dsp0 don't appear in their directory.

you should not worry about that. /dev/sndstat is as far as I can collect,
considered deprecated, and most new drivers don't support it.

>   So, a try for reading from anyone either of the 
> /dev/audio or /dev/dsp with the command:
>  'dd bs=8k count=5 </dev/audio > sample.au'
> or the same with /dev/dsp... It doesn't read
> anything, such that the sample.au file
> contains always the same character, indicating
> that there is only a silence.
>   So the command 'cat sample.au > /dev/audio'
> gives only a 5 seconds silence, the same
> with the /dev/dsp interface.

i cite the documentation for the driver (i keep it in
/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/Documentation/sound/es1371):

# In short, playing a Sun .au file as follows:
# 
# cat my_file.au > /dev/dsp
# 
# does not work. Instead, you may use the play script from
# Chris Bagwell's sox-12.14 package (available from the URL
# below) to play many different audio file formats.

you should read the whole fine manual, actually.

иии

now if someone could tell me how to use the joystick port for midi on this
card, everything would be perfect :-)
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