alsa question

Gregory Nowak gnowak1 at uic.edu
Sat Mar 23 16:56:42 EST 2002


You cannot use cat to send audio files to devices. Instead use "play filename.au". You could use aplay too, but I still can't get aplay or arecord to work.
Greg


On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 04:13:07PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote:
> Hi listers. I have my sound card module loaded from /lib/modules/2.4.18/misc, which is where my alsa modules are located. In /dev/snd, I have pcmC0D0C, and pcmC0D0P. To make sure the card worked, I did the following: cat english.au /dev/snd/pcmC0D0C. All I got was a resounding beeping from the pc speaker, no audio. Can I not use cat to send audio to the sound card so it will play it? Or would it be better to use wavplay to do audio testing? Thanks in advance! 
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