[plug] Sound Card Setup

[Brad Campbell]

Clinton Butler wrote:
> My Debian workstation has a Sound Blaster 16 ISA PnP card installed in
> the box.
> I cannot see to get any sound events happening.
> I was told to do a 'modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1'
> This game access to the sound card.. apparently.

Well at least your starting with the right distro :p)
 
> I was then told to do a 'cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp'
> This made my sound card make a hissing sound like a pulse.
> Ctrl-C killed the sound... I was told that this means my sound card is
> working.

Yep..
 
> I was then told to install a mixer and I installed aumix and it
> installed fine and it runs.
> the only problem is.. I can still get no sound... either as root or a user.

When you say.. Get no sound.. what are you using to create the sound?
What are you trying to play?
What program are you using to try and play it?


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