[Techtalk] Soundcard not cooperating.
Conni
ccovingt at one-eyed-alien.net
Wed May 8 17:58:51 EST 2002
On May 8, Laurel Fan conjectured:
> The permissions are read and write by owner only, owned by user conni
> and group root, so it looks like you should have permissions to write
> to it...
I thought I did ...
> Have you tried just catting a file to the audio device? (catting a
> wav file to /dev/dsp should play the wav file, but if you don't have
> one handy, you can use pretty much any file, it'll just sound bad).
I tried it with an mp3, which sort of buzzed and hissed, so I ripped a
short song as a wav, and tried that, which also sort of buzzed and hissed.
(The syntax is 'cat foo.wav /dev/dsp' right?)
Conni
wondering why this has to be during finals.
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