Re: is there a way to probe a sound card's settings to see if it broken

[John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu>]

cat /dev/sndstat

would be the first thing I tried.  Today seems to be my day to refer to
howtos...:)

http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Sound-HOWTO.html

On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Walter Tautz wrote:

>I have recently suffered a mysterious failure in my sound
>card that was working perfectly (es1371) and the modules
>are still being loaded and I am in the audio group and
>the permissions are writable etc and YET the damn thing
>does not work...I should point out i am doing this with
>a head set and not a amplified speaker system. mpeg123 claims
>it is playing the files. I did test the headset on my radio..and
>they work. Maybe pulling the sound card out and putting it in
>again (possibly into another slot would work)...
>
>
>ARe there any tools that can probe the card to see whether certain
>settings have somehow been turned off??? How does a sound card actually
>work...
>
>-walter
>
>ps. Annoyed that sound doesn't work.... Any references would be
>appreciated.
>
>
>

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