"Paul W. Abrahams" wrote:
I have some very basic questions about how sound works under Linux that aren't answered by either of the relevant Howto's. Perhaps someone here can help.
Wow, that is one humongous question. The only thing I've ever seen is the OSS website used to have a little tutorial about programming sound with their drivers. It probably would have some info.
By the way, I've managed to get sound to play through the speaker (I have a Creative Labs PCI128 card) and also have done a little recording, but haven't been able to record from CD so far. So my problems are not with the basic setup or kernel configuration but rather with the intelligent usage of the relevant software.
This is one I can answer. If you want to record from cd, get cdda2wav. It lets you rip a track from a scsi cd drive to a wave file in about 30 seconds. This is one area where linux multimedia beats window's stuff. -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>