Re: Gigabyte GA-7ZX & sound chip
Keith O'Connell(keith_oconnell@blueyonder.co.uk) is reported to have said:
>
> > Do you use kdm/gdm? If you can get to a terminal, try playing music
> > outside of the Gnome environment to isolate the problem - I seem to
> > recall several people on this list having sound problems in the past few
> > months with Gnome, although I don't remeber why. If you can play sound
> > from the terminal, then it _will_ work, just a question of tweaking
> > Gnome.
>
> OK - I am up for this! Unfortunatly I do not know how. I can think of no
> occassion when I have tried to get sound from a command line program.
> Can anyone tell me a command line program that I can install to test to
> see if the sound module is OK. A CD player or just an exotic type of
> beep will do!
>
> Keith
In Woody
apt-cache search player |grep CD
ascd - CD player and mixer
cccd - small GTK CD player program
cdcd - command line or console based CD player
dcd - Command-line CD player
gcd - a GTK-based CD player.
groovycd - A ncurse based CD player.
mctools-lite - A CD player and audio mixer for X
wmcdplay - A CD player based on ascd designed for WindowMaker
wmrack - Combined CD Player + Mixer designed for WindowMaker
workbone - A simple text-based CD player
xfreecd - a GTK-based CD Player
xine - MPEG, VCD, DVD audio/video player for X11
xmcd - X11 based CD player
tcd - a CD player with an ncurses and GTK-based interface
I like dcd and tcd myself.
In Potato
xfreecd - a GTK-based CD Player
mctools-lite - A CD player and audio mixer for X
groovycd - A ncurse based CD player.
workbone - A simple text-based CD player
cccd - small GTK CD player program
cdcd - command line or console based CD player
ascd - CD player and mixer
dcd - Command-line CD player
gcd - a GTK-based CD player.
workman - Graphical tool for playing audio CDs on a CD-ROM drive.
xmcd - X11 based CD player
As for sound from a command line program, I use the saytime program
to tell me the time on the hour and 'play' other sounds for various
crontab events. Been doing that for years now.
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