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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