Re: Sound testing

[Krzys Majewski <majewski@cs.ubc.ca>]

Timothy Bedding <tim@bedding0.demon.co.uk> writes:

> I am trying to get my Sound Blaster card working.
> 
> Can anyone suggest a simple test program that I can
> run to prove that it is working? 

I use "saytime". For example:

while true
do
saytime
sleep 1
done

I've been  playing with sound lately  (sound blaster awe  64 isa pnp),
here's my summary:
- there are afaik 3 different drivers you can use:
        1. The OSS/Free drivers that come with the linux kernel
        2. The shareware OSS drivers from the OSS website. They cost
        money. I could not get their demo to install under Debian. 
        3. ALSA. This is  what I'm using now. It was a bitch
        to set up but it seems to work well. You can get the
        latest source from something like www.alsa-project.org.
        There's about 3 different howto's on the website, 
        reading all of them helped me with configuring the drivers.
        The benefit of ALSA is for example full-duplex support for my
        sound card, which I need since I like to do some live sound 
        recording/mixing.
- the  sb awe 64  isa pnp may not very good if  you plan to  do sound
recording with ecasound.  If it works for you,  great; it doesn't work
that well for me (slow, noisy). I think I'll get an sb 128pci card next. 

-chris