On Donnerstag, 3. November 2011 at 03:58, Pierre Abbat wrote: > Okay, can you recommend some programs to use the sound? I tried alsa play, > and > got this: > > ALSA lib pcm.c:2215:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default > Playback open error: -2,No such file or directory
ALSA is Linux-only. There is supposedly a compatibility library, but I've never gotten it to work and it seems to be unmaintained. The BSD soundsystem is OSS compatible; so you want either something with OSS output or something that uses libao; IIRC you also need to install audio/libao-oss for those. A quick test to check if sound works is "cat < /dev/urandom > /dev/pcm0" (expected result: noise :)) --matthiasr
