Timothy Bedding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am trying to get my Sound Blaster card working.
>
> Can anyone suggest a simple test program that I can
> run to prove that it is working?
I use "saytime". For example:
while true
do
saytime
sleep 1
done
I've been playing with sound lately (sound blaster awe 64 isa pnp),
here's my summary:
- there are afaik 3 different drivers you can use:
1. The OSS/Free drivers that come with the linux kernel
2. The shareware OSS drivers from the OSS website. They cost
money. I could not get their demo to install under Debian.
3. ALSA. This is what I'm using now. It was a bitch
to set up but it seems to work well. You can get the
latest source from something like www.alsa-project.org.
There's about 3 different howto's on the website,
reading all of them helped me with configuring the drivers.
The benefit of ALSA is for example full-duplex support for my
sound card, which I need since I like to do some live sound
recording/mixing.
- the sb awe 64 isa pnp may not very good if you plan to do sound
recording with ecasound. If it works for you, great; it doesn't work
that well for me (slow, noisy). I think I'll get an sb 128pci card next.
-chris
