[ale] Sound Stuff

[Cor van Dijk]

David Brooks wrote:

> Perhaps someone could help me figure this out -- Ive had it working
> before but under Debian and not redhat (like it should matter...):
>
> Under RedHat's sndconfig utility, it autoprobes and finds a CMD*
> soundboard.  My sound card is built into the motherboard.  When it tries
> to play a sound, nothing comes out.  Nothing comes out under any
> configuration of that board.
>
> When I choose Sound Blaster AWE32/64, I can cat *.au files to /dev/audio
> and get *really faint* sound, and /dev/sndstat shows a Sound Blaster 16
> as an audio device (nothing else except timer).  When I fire up x11amp,
> I get this message on stdout:
>
> Decode Loop
>
> ...every time I hit the play button.  It's done this with multiple mp3
> files, so its not the particular file I'm playing.  I dont have an audio
> cable from my CDROM to soundcard, so I cant test it there, either...
>
> Thanks,
> Dave

Try 'xmixer'