Keith O'Connell([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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. -- Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will use it. _______________________________________________________
