CM8738 in FC4

[Mr Chris Aitken]

Mr Chris Aitken wrote:

> I want to get my wife's FC4 computer playing sound. I'm not going to 
> try anything heroic like the failed e-mu1212m / alsa troubleshoot on 
> the ubuntu machine, but she bought a pair of computer speakers and 
> would like to be able to play mp3's and play youtube videos. Of 
> course, sound is not coming out of the speakers.

I found a test command at teh alsa homepage and ran it:

aplay -vv somefile.wav

I didn't have a wav file so I ran:

aplay -vv somefile.wma

I got some scary white noise. It wouldn't stop - I couldn't log out - I 
had to manually shut down. I guess that command is for wav files only...

Chris

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