On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 12:18 AM, William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 07:57 -0500, Alex White wrote: >> <snip> > >> Not entirely sure what one would glean from /proc other than that >> the card is present and drivers are loaded for it. There's lengthy >> output for my sound device. I won't paste all of it, but everything >> is located in /proc/asound. My device is also listed under >> /proc/devices as one would expect. > > /proc delivers the *truth*. And for some things, settings can be changed > there that are not easily addressed through utilities. > ..... > After this, I'll pop in Mark Knoppfler's "Shangri-La" and diff the two > files. > # cd /proc/asound > # find . -type f -exec echo {} \; -exec cat {} \; >/tmp/asound I guess alsa and /proc are all fine on my machine, but I've got a blank result on /proc/asound running following find, no sure if that was significant: [asound]$ find . -type f -exec echo {} \; -exec cat {} \; > /tmp/asound $ rpm -qa | grep -i alsaalsa-utils-1.0.14-3.rc4.el5 alsa-lib-devel-1.0.14-1.rc4.el5 alsa-lib-1.0.14-1.rc4.el5 ]$ rpm --verify alsa-lib-1.0.14-1.rc4.el5.i386 alsa-utils-1.0.14-3.rc4.el5.i386 | echo $? 0 [asound]$ ls card0 cards devices Intel modules oss pcm seq timers version [asound]$ pwd && cat modules && cat cards /proc/asound 0 snd_hda_intel 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDA Intel at 0xf0500000 irq 66 I've also tried to ls in /proc/asound/Intel: $ ls codec#0 codec#1 id oss_mixer pcm0c pcm0p pcm2c Seems, all drivers there, is there any command such as cat to verify low level drivers by playing a sound? Thank you. Jim