It was running and did'nt end with an error. I also check other output on the cards, the cable and the speakers.
Le mercredi 29 juillet 2009 C 19:20 +0200, Alexandre Ratchov a C)crit : > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 07:06:15PM +0200, Jean-FranC'ois SIMON wrote: > > Thanks for your patience. No it just rest silent and here two successive > > audioctl, no movement in the play sensor. > > > > $ audioctl > > play.samples=0 > > play.open=1 > > play.active=0 > > play.errors=0 > > very strange, the device is opened but it's stopped, and > cat(1) cant do that. > > can you confirm that the ``cat /dev/arandom >/dev/audio'' > command was still running during the whole operation. Are > you sure it didn't terminate with a error? > > play.active=0 indicates that the device is stopped and play.samples=0 means it > has played 0 samples, so it's normal you dont hear anything so far. > > during the ``cat /dev/arandom >/dev/audio'' command the > play.active should be 1, and play.sample should be > increasing. > > fwiw, if the ``cat /dev/arandom >/dev/audio'' terminates > with ``Device busy'', you can use fstat(1) to see which > programm is using it, (and kill it), example: > > $ fstat /dev/audio > USER CMD PID FD MOUNT INUM MODE R/W SZ|DV NAME > aucat aucat 31279 3 / 1709 crw-rw-rw- rw audio0 > /dev/audio > $ sudo kill 31279 > > -- Alexandre

