A novice question

2003-03-23 Thread Tamir Halperin
Which command retrieves the version / release number of my FreeBSD? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: A novice question

2003-03-23 Thread Frank Reppin
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Tamir Halperin wrote: Which command retrieves the version / release number of my FreeBSD? nomad# sysctl -a kern.version kern.version: FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p9 #0: Sun Mar 23 12:53:35 CET 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MINAX best regards, frank reppin

Re: A novice question

2003-03-23 Thread Viktor Lazlo
On 23 Mar 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Tamir Halperin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which command retrieves the version / release number of my FreeBSD? uname -m uname -m only writes the hardware platform, uname -v gives the version. Cheers, Viktor To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: A novice question

2003-03-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tamir Halperin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which command retrieves the version / release number of my FreeBSD? uname -m That should be uname -a; sorry about that. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in

Re: Novice question about testing sound cards

2002-11-05 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], you wrote: Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: OK, I'm willing to give that a try, but what device should I can the .au file to? Do I cat to /dev/dsp0 ? Yes, give it a try. I tried it, and nothing happened. No sound came out. I cat'd the file to /dev/dsp0. Was

Re: Novice question about testing sound cards

2002-11-04 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], you wrote: Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: Ok, so question: What's the simplest and easiest way to simply check to see if a given sound card is working or not? I gather that it is _not_ as simple as just cat'ing some .mp3 file to one of the /dev/dsp* device files,

Re: Novice question about testing sound cards

2002-11-04 Thread Andrew Boothman
Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: Also, try doing 'cat /dev/sndstat' to make sure that pcm really does understand your card. OK, did that, and I get: FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Installed Devices: pcm0: SB16 DSP 4.13 at io 0x220 irq 5 drq 1:5 bufsz 4096d (1p/1r/0v channels duplex) Does that all

Re: Novice question about testing sound cards

2002-11-04 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], you wrote: I'm not totally sure about this, but I think that you can dump audio file in the 'au' format directly to devices. A test au format file can be found on http://www.cti.ecp.fr/documents/a_sound.au (This was linked to from

Re: Novice question about testing sound cards

2002-11-04 Thread Andrew Boothman
Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: OK, I'm willing to give that a try, but what device should I can the .au file to? Do I cat to /dev/dsp0 ? Yes, give it a try. I tried it, and nothing happened. No sound came out. I cat'd the file to /dev/dsp0. Was that correct? Sorry Ronald, I don't know what

Re: Novice question about testing sound cards

2002-11-03 Thread Andrew Boothman
Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: The card is now clearly recognized on boot up, however I'm still not 100% that it's working. I tried using a couple of CD player utilities and no sound came out if the speakers. The card will only act as a CD-player if it is directly connected to the CD-player