yeah. as was just mentioned, only some formats happen to output correctly
when cat-ed to /dev/audio, for others use an approperiate software tool.
ie for .wav-s try 'play' for midi 'playmidi'
and i am sure there are many others...
-cc
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Eric Tork wrote:
> As luck would have it, that did the trick. The module loads, and all
> is fine.......but one problem remains. /dev/audio outputs garble when I
> send something to it, like a wav file. KDE's systems sounds all come
> through clear, so I assume that it sends its output through something
> else? Is there something that needs to be done with /dev/audio?
>
> btw, this is a redhat 5.1 box with an isa pnp soundblaster 64.
>
> Cornelius Creedon wrote:
> >
> > this message has occured to me in the past due to inaccurate or
> > insufficient options to the module.
> > are you specifying io, irq, dma, etc?
> > ie "modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5" or whatever...
> > if so do these match up with the card's config?
> > sounds like a pci card, right? does it appear in /proc/pci?
> >
> > -cc
> >
> > On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Eric Tork wrote:
> >
> > > I'm having quite a runaround with getting my awe64 to work with a
> > > 2.2.2 kernel. This is what I get when I run modprobe:
> > >
> > > /lib/modules/2.2.2/misc/sb.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
> > >
> > > if a cat my /dev/sndstat, there's no installed driver, no config
> > > options, nada.
> > >
> > > I upgraded everything that I needed to upgrade in the Changes file
> > > for the kernel, making sure that my modutils was properly installed.
> > > Insmod -V returns the correct version number (2.1.121) I'm at my wit's
> > > end.
