CM8738 in FC4

[Ivan Avery Frey]

Mr Chris Aitken wrote:
> 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...

Ctrl-C will terminate the foreground process in the console or shell.

No need to shut down.

Ivan.
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