From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 19 17:29:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (mta07-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7152537B401 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 17:29:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from m45-mp1-cvx1b.gui.ntl.com ([62.252.8.45]) by mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20010220012905.LLMA26323.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@m45-mp1-cvx1b.gui.ntl.com>; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 01:29:05 +0000 Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 01:38:08 +0000 (GMT) From: George Reid X-Sender: greid@sobek.openirc.co.uk To: Dominic Marks Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCM, Audio, Ensoniq PCI Sound card, Kernel issue In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Dominic Marks wrote: > # cat some.wav > /dev/audio > > I might have also done "cat some.wav | /dev/audio" I'm not sure, would that > have made a difference? Yes. "cat some.wav | /dev/audio" makes no sense. That basically means "take the output of 'cat some.wav' and pipe it through the /dev/audio program". Nonsense, since /dev/audio is a device node and not a program. Mind you, "cat some.wav > /dev/audio" doesn't make any sense either. You can't just write a wave file to the device node and expect to get sound: a WAVE file is not just raw audio data. Investigate sox (/usr/ports/audio/sox) - this will let you test out the sound properly with WAVE files. > (probably...) It just made a horrible screeching > noise, so evidently something is wrong Actually, it's exactly what would be expected. G "And then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel was just a freight train, comin' your way." George Reid * greid@ukug.uk.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message