On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 19:54 -0500, J Chapman Flack wrote:
> > The problem: select on the /dev/sound fd is never saying that data is
> > available. Why is this the case? Isn't there always sound available to
> > read?
> 
> Do you get sound to read at all, say with cat or dd?  If not, it could be

Yup, reading normally works fine. The driver is auich, and I tested both
the audio and modem attachments.

Cheers,
Jared