Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 12:30:01 -0800 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> To: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Novice question about testing sound cards Message-ID: <68903.1036528201@monkeys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 05 Nov 2002 01:30:42 %2B0000. <3DC71F42.7070401@cream.org>
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In message <3DC71F42.7070401@cream.org>, you wrote: >Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >>>>OK, I'm willing to give that a try, but what device should I can the .au >>>>file to? Do I cat to /dev/dsp0 ? >>> >>>Yes, give it a try. >> >> >> I tried it, and nothing happened. No sound came out. >> >> I cat'd the file to /dev/dsp0. Was that correct? > >Sorry Ronald, I don't know what else to check from there. My advice >would be to try an mp3 or other media player. OK, I found the problem. Yesterday I had one of those ``DUH!'' moments. First let me explain that the only kind of speakers I have available are a pair of *non-amplified* speakers. Sound card, it seems, come with two different types of output jacks... one (`line out') suitable only for connecting up to _amplified_ speakers, and the other (`speaker out') suitable for connecting up to a pair of _non-amplifed_ speakers of the kind I have. Well, of course, I had my pair of non-amplified speakers plugged into the `line out' jack, and thus, any sounds produced by my sound card were just barely audible, and only when I held my ear right up to the speaker(s). It's amazing how helpful reading the installation manual for your sound card can be! (Like DUH!) My thanks to Creative Labs for still having (and keeping) a copy of the installation manual for this ancient and crusty SoundBlaster 16 (that I bounght second-hand) available on their web site. Thanks, of course, also to Andrew, for trying to help me out with this. Who knew that the answer would be something so simple and obvious! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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