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Re: Sound programs



On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 10:15:50AM +0200,
Jocke <jocke1s@tripnet.se> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Just some small wonderings concerning sound configurations.
> 
> I have a Soundblaster Live that I can play .au files on
> by piping (AS ROOT ONLY) $ cat sound.au >/dev/audio

You need to add yourself to the audio group. man adduser


> Been reading the Howtos and understand that I need some
> more things installed. Is there a list of a basic 
> working sound package (mixers, cd-player, mp3 etc) for
> debian. I am running WindowMaker and got hold of
> wmcdplay, wmsoundserver, wmsoundprefs. If I try to
> startr wmsoundserver I get segmentation fault and
> wmcdplay says: unable to open cdrom device '/dev/cdrom'.
> In addition to this I also have the following installed
> xmms, playmidi, xmix, tracker, sox, tcd, sound-recorder.
> 

Looks like you have enough software to me. Make sure /dev/cdrom is
a symbolic link to your cdrom device, most likely /dev/hdb or /dev/hdd.

-- 
Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> epg@pobox.com

"Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman--a rope over an abyss.
 A dangerous across, a dangerous on-the-way, a dangerous looking-back,
 a dangerous shuddering and stopping."
 --Friedrich Nietzsche

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