On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:29:53 +0100, Chris Jones <jonesc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> And aplay -Dhw:0,0 some.wav to see if alsa sound is working. >> >> I assume that you are not saying there should be a file named >> "some.wav", right? > >yes > >> >> On a freshly installed Fedora7 box where nothing else has been done, >> where can one find a wav file to use as a test? >> I have no connectivity over to my Windows box except the virtual PC >> window I am using to run the guest operating system in. >> I hade to type the above result from the screen to this message for >> instance. > >There will be one somewhere. Welcome to the find command > > > cd / > > find . -name "*.wav" > Thanks, with this find command I now found a lot of wav files, so I tested the command above with some openoffice sample files. They all can be heard fine :-) But the play ends in some error saying that a file cannot be written. Anyways I know that sound is actually happening, only need to find out why the Sounds application cannot play anything. Bo Berglund
