Subject: Re: sound
To: Space Case <wormey@eskimo.com>
From: Joel Reicher <joel@panacea.null.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/28/1998 15:21:42
> When I try to make sound come out of the system, nothing happens until...
>
> <34 gateway /kreversi/sounds># cat lost.wav > /dev/audio0
> <35 gateway /kreversi/sounds># cat lost.wav > /dev/sound
> <36 gateway /kreversi/sounds># cat lost.wav > /dev/speaker
> /dev/speaker: Device not configured.
> <37 gateway /kreversi/sounds># cat lost.wav > /dev/audio
>
> /dev/audio gives me static. Everything else is nada. What can I look
> at to try getting sound out of this beast?
AFAIK, wav files are not raw audio. Don't know the details of the format,
but you should grab a program to play them. Raw files are usually .au
Also, /dev/speaker is not your sound card. If you look at the speaker(4)
man page:
DESCRIPTION
The speaker device driver allows applications to control the PC console
speaker on an IBM-PC-compatible machine running UNIX.
- Joel