Tim wrote: >> Someone mentioned trying something like "cat foo.ogg > /dev/dsp". >> In my case, when sound is working this produces a white noise. >> Is this testing the sound driver >> (in my case snd_intel8x0 , I assume) directly? > > If you catted a raw audio format, rather than a compressed one, to the > sound device, you ought to hear sound. Hearing garbage isn't really > going to prove much. Thanks for your interest and perseverance. I gather that .wav is an uncompressed format (according to <http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Computer_Science/2005/digital_audio_formats.asp>), but I just hear white noise if I cat this, while I hear the sound properly with aplay: ----------------------------------- [tim@elizabeth ~]$ cat /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav > /dev/dsp [tim@elizabeth ~]$ aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav ----------------------------------- Do you actually hear the words if you give the first command above? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
