From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FN2jf-00064b-C9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 06:58:55 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2P6x3F5032006; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 06:59:03 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2P6x2pZ004357 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 06:59:03 GMT Message-Id: <200603250659.k2P6x2pZ004357@robin.gentoo.org> Received: from lark.gentoo.osuosl.org ([140.211.166.177] helo=lark) by smtp.gentoo.org with smtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FN2jm-0001nl-FZ for gentoo-doc-cvs@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 06:59:02 +0000 Received: by lark (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 25 Mar 2006 06:59:01 +0000 From: "Shyam Mani" Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 06:59:01 +0000 To: gentoo-doc-cvs@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-doc-cvs] cvs commit: alsa-guide.xml Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-doc-cvs@gentoo.org Reply-to: docs-team@lists.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: 6050e2eb-3035-4ada-a726-32163632cfdf X-Archives-Hash: 395d57583ab90a12ac4dad741d703cb4 fox2mike 06/03/25 06:59:01 Modified: alsa-guide.xml Log: Removed stupid section on catting /dev/urandom. Closes bug #119019 as well. Revision Changes Path 1.65 xml/htdocs/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml file : http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml?rev=1.65&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=gentoo plain: http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml?rev=1.65&content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=gentoo diff : http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml.diff?r1=1.64&r2=1.65&cvsroot=gentoo Index: alsa-guide.xml =================================================================== RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml,v retrieving revision 1.64 retrieving revision 1.65 diff -u -r1.64 -r1.65 --- alsa-guide.xml 1 Jan 2006 11:51:43 -0000 1.64 +++ alsa-guide.xml 25 Mar 2006 06:59:01 -0000 1.65 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ - + @@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ -2.10 -2005-09-10 +2.11 +2006-03-25 Introduction @@ -605,29 +605,6 @@

-The irritating way to check your soundcard is to see if you can hear static on -the speakers. This isn't exactly fun, but hey, it tells you the card is -configured and working. -

- -
-# cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp
-
- - -/dev/dsp is a symlink to /dev/sound/dsp and should be -automatically created. Try re-directing the output to -/dev/sound/dsp in case you don't get a "No such file or directory" -error. - - -

-You should hear static. Press Ctrl + C to stop. If you don't hear -anything, now is a good time to go back and check/trace out the issue and -rectify it. -

- -

Finally. Some music. If everything above is perfect, you should now be able to listen to some good music. A quick way to test is to use a command line tool like media-sound/madplay. You could also use something more well known -- gentoo-doc-cvs@gentoo.org mailing list