You cannot use cat to send audio files to devices. Instead use "play filename.au". You could use aplay too, but I still can't get aplay or arecord to work. Greg On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 04:13:07PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote: > Hi listers. I have my sound card module loaded from /lib/modules/2.4.18/misc, which is where my alsa modules are located. In /dev/snd, I have pcmC0D0C, and pcmC0D0P. To make sure the card worked, I did the following: cat english.au /dev/snd/pcmC0D0C. All I got was a resounding beeping from the pc speaker, no audio. Can I not use cat to send audio to the sound card so it will play it? Or would it be better to use wavplay to do audio testing? Thanks in advance! > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup