Re: sound issue...

2003-07-26 Thread Gilboa Davara
Did you try playing ordinary wav files? Gilboa On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 17:20, Amir Tal wrote: > On Thursday 24 July 2003 10:27, you wrote: > > ok, this is weird : > mplayer just played an mp3 file for me from terminal (mplayer filename). > all other players are not working (xmms, kaboodle, xine) >

Re: sound issue...

2003-07-24 Thread Oron Peled
On 24 Jul 2003 17:27:24 +0300 Gilboa Davara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 17:00, Amir Tal wrote: > > i didnt know that using "cat" will play the file!??! > > it just gave me a giberish output in my terminal. Amir, I think you missed the redirection sign in Gilboa's reply

Re: sound issue...

2003-07-24 Thread Gilboa Davara
Please do $ls -l /dev/dsp. Gilboa On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 17:00, Amir Tal wrote: > On Thursday 24 July 2003 10:07, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > no i dont. > i didnt know that using "cat" will play the file!??! > it just gave me a giberish output in my terminal. > > tal. > > > > Ignore arts for

Re: sound issue...

2003-07-24 Thread Amir Tal
On Thursday 24 July 2003 10:07, Gilboa Davara wrote: no i dont. i didnt know that using "cat" will play the file!??! it just gave me a giberish output in my terminal. tal. > Ignore arts for a second. > Do you hear anything when you cat > /dev/dsp (as root)? > > Gilboa > > On Thu, 2003-07-

Re: sound issue...

2003-07-24 Thread Gilboa Davara
Ignore arts for a second. Do you hear anything when you cat > /dev/dsp (as root)? Gilboa On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 16:35, Amir Tal wrote: > got myself a used dell inspiron 4000 for a (very) good price, and loaded > debian sid on it. > it used to run winXP before i formatted it, and sound worked jus

sound issue...

2003-07-24 Thread Amir Tal
got myself a used dell inspiron 4000 for a (very) good price, and loaded debian sid on it. it used to run winXP before i formatted it, and sound worked just fine, so this is not a hardware problem. the debian mailing list describes a similar case, but i think my problem is a little more serious