On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Ralph Benzinger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Despite my earnest attempts, I failed at getting sound work on my
> Inspiron 3000 running RedHat 5.1 with Kernel 2.0.35. Catting
> /usr/share/sndcondig/hello.au to /dev/audio yields a short
> "Hell..." before the greeting is cut-off. The x11amp player
> immediately becomes stuck and repeats the first few hundred
> milliseconds of a song. Sound effects generated by Window Maker
> are ... interesting.
> Strangely enough, playing audio CDs works just fine.
Actually, not strange. The CD audio plugs directly from the CD
drive to the audio device and the CD is either playing or not. So the
rest of the computer is almost not needed. The thing tha surprised me was
the cat hello.au to /dev/audio. I just tried and got nothing. Then tried
hello.au to /dev/dsp and it worked. If it's hacking up your sounds though
I would say somewhere you said you had more memory than you actually do or
your sound card has bad memory. I can't remember if oss has a memory
setting before you compile, but the kernel source does. If oss does, try
lowering it.
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