[plug] RE: Sound Card

[Clinton Butler]

> 1) Patience is a virtue. The people here are infact providing a service for
> free, and usually outside of business hours. Life demands that we balance
> work, rest, play and family or we lose one of the above.

sorry

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> 2) Please trim the signature :-) CodeRed is taking enough bandwidth as it
> is...

done. got a new one. tell me if it's too big... but.. it's only like.. ascii
characters... shouldn't bother bandwidth.. it's like one byte per character.
:o/

> OK On to the problem at hand.
>
> The main tool to test sound is 'saytime'. It sends the time in audio direct
> to /dev/dsp. No mixers or other stuff to get in the way. If that works
> properly then 'your sound card works perfectly' as a device, the software
> may have problems. If it skips, then there could possibly be an IRQ
> conflict.

'opening: /dev/audio: no such device'

> Once you know where you stand there, e-mail the list back with a more
> utiltitarian message.

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