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James Wonnacott wrote: > Robin Cornelius wrote: > >> in alsamixer do you have any other "special" fader controls, sounds >> like a strange question but on my old sound blaster i had a load of >> post routing faders that could do horrible things and stop the sound >> completley or just force it all out of a surround speaker. > Alsamixer has :- > > PCM Front Line CD Mic IEC958 Capture Capture > > The first five are on full and not muted. The last two are on 0, IEC958 > seems to have no fader but is unmuted. > > >> Out of intrest you don't have a OSS sound driver running do you? > > How do I find out? > What >> dev entries do you have related to sound what does ls /dev/sound/ or >> /dev/snd/ show you and do you have any /dev/dsp /dev/dsp1 etc entries. >> > j1@j1-laptop:~$ ls /dev/snd > controlC0 pcmC0D0c pcmC0D0p pcmC0D1p pcmC0D2c timer > > j1@j1-laptop:~$ ls -l /dev/dsp > crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 2007-02-09 16:24 /dev/dsp > >> If you do have a /dev/dsp what does "cat somewavefile.wav > /dev/dsp" >> do (in fact you can use any file it just makes a horrible noise". > > j1@j1-laptop:~$ cat /usr/share/sounds > /dev/dsp > bash: /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy > > I wonder what's keeping it busy? fuser /dev/dsp fuser /dev/sound/* fuser /dev/snd/* -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html