sound config problem

[Bruce Cran]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:27:49 +0200
Daniel Nebdal <dnebdal at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just as a starter, does it work at all? That is, do you have a
> /dev/dsp? Do simple OSS programs work? (mpg123 is a nice minimal test;
> mplayer is fine.)
> There's always a chance of the problem being on the gnome side of
> things, so it just seems sensible to start with the really simple
> things. Apologies if you've done this already. :)

The simplest test is:

cat /dev/random > /dev/dsp

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Bruce Cran