OK. Extracting the soundcard-specific info from what you posted gives us this:
>SoundBlaster� and Windows� sound compatible (website Dell)
>Sigmatel 9700 audio controller (Laptop users manual)
>Integrated Intell Audio (Windows)
>82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio controller (Windows)
The Soundblaster reference is marketing bafflegab, but the 82801CA/CAM
tells us what you really have. And it seems that you have the correct sound
module (i810_audio) for it, based on checking this URL:
http://www.systura.com/linux/thinkpadr31.html
This is confirmed by your ability to send sound output to /dev/dsp ... it
believes it is connected to *something*.
Now, with this in place, you report this "problem":
>Finally, the 'overdrive' sound, it's not 'double speed' (I guess), but
>it's a typical 'noise-signal' sound. So:
>
>cat /usr/share/sndconfig/sample.au > /dev/dsp
>
>gives such a noise-signal (overdrive). I really don't know how I can
>describe it another way... I'm sorry about that. The same is true for
>/usr/share/sndconfig/sample2.au and some small wav-files (not all of them).
I *think* you are saying that sometimes this procedure plays .wav viles
correctly, but sometimes it does not ... and it "never" (in quotes because
I don't know how many different files you tried) plays .au files correctly.
At this point, I would not rely on "cat" to get the details of sound right.
"cat" is able to verify that the sound device is present and configured,
but it is, to put it mildly, not the best way to play music. The Linux
Sound HowTo (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Sound-HOWTO/index.html, section 6.2)
notes this:
"Sun workstation (.au) sound files can be played by sending them to the
/dev/audio device. Raw samples can be sent to /dev/dsp. This will generally
give poor results though, and using a program such as play is preferable,
as it will recognize most file types and set the sound card to the correct
sampling rate, etc."
So I'd suggest you install xmms (or mpg123 or something else you find
congenial) and see if it plays sound files (probably .mp3 or .ogg files,
though I believe xmms can handle .wav too) properly. If not, look at (and
send us relevant portions of, if need be) the error output (run the app
from an xterm on the console, and redirect STDERR output someplace useful).
At 02:16 PM 12/30/02 +0100, Kurt Sys wrote:
>OK, thanks, but apparently, I have to try again... So let's try sound on
>my laptop. I don't have much information about the hardware, but this is
>it (and I've added the 'source of the information' between brackets):
[details deleted]
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