Attachment 327710 Details for Bug 437542 – Proposed change to the ALSA guide.

[patch] Proposed change to the ALSA guide.

alsa-guide.patch (text/plain), 2.27 KB, created by Francesco Turco on 2012-10-29 19:09:04 UTC

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Creator: Francesco Turco

Created: 2012-10-29 19:09:04 UTC

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>--- alsa-guide.xml	2012-10-29 19:59:55.811260256 +0100
>+++ alsa-guide-2.xml	2012-10-29 20:00:41.078708580 +0100
>@@ -407,52 +407,22 @@
> <section>
> <title>Sound Check!</title>
> <body>
>-
> 
>-Finally. Some music. If everything above is perfect, you should now be able to
>-listen to some good music. A quick way to test is to use a command line tool
>-like <c>media-sound/madplay</c>. You could also use something more well known
>-like <c>mpg123</c>. If you are an ogg fan, you could use <c>ogg123</c> provided
>-by <c>media-sound/vorbis-tools</c>. Use any player you are comfortable with. As
>-always, <c>emerge</c> what you need.
>+If everything above is perfect, you should now be able to test your sound card
>+and your speakers. We will use the <c>speaker-test</c> command line tool from
>+package <c>media-sound/alsa-utils</c> (this should already be installed as per
>+our previous recommendation).
> 
>+<pre caption="Testing sound card and speakers">
>+<comment>(If you have a stereo system)</comment>
>+$ speaker-test -t wav -c 2 -D front
> 
>-<pre caption="Getting the software">
>-<comment>(Install the applications you want)</comment>
>-# emerge madplay mpg123
>-<comment>(To play .ogg files)</comment>
>-# emerge vorbis-tools
>+<comment>(If you have a 5.1 system)</comment>
>+$ speaker-test -t wav -c 6 -D surround51
> </pre>
>-
> 
>-And then play your favorite sound track...
>+Press <c>CTRL+C</c> to interrupt the test.
> 
>-
>-<pre caption="Playing Music">
>-# madplay -v /mnt/shyam/Music/Paul\ Oakenfold\ -\ Dread\ Rock.mp3
>-MPEG Audio Decoder 0.15.2 (beta) - Copyright (C) 2000-2004 Robert Leslie et al.
>- Title: Dread Rock
>- Artist: Paul Oakenfold
>- Album: Matrix Reloaded
>- Year: 2003
>- Genre: Soundtrack
>- Soundtrack
>- 00:04:19 Layer III, 160 kbps, 44100 Hz, joint stereo (MS), no CRC
>-
>-# ogg123 Paul\ Oakenfold\ -\ Dread\ Rock.ogg
>-Audio Device: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) output
>-
>-Playing: Paul Oakenfold - Dread Rock.ogg
>-Ogg Vorbis stream: 2 channel, 44100 Hz
>-Genre: Soundtrack
>-Transcoded: mp3;160
>-Title: Dread Rock
>-Artist: Paul Oakenfold
>-Date: 2003
>-Album: Matrix Reloaded
>-Time: 00:11.31 [04:28.75] of 04:40.06 (200.6 kbps) Output Buffer 96.9%
>-</pre>
>-
> </body>
> </section>
> <section>

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