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From: Shyam Mani <fox2mike@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-doc-cvs@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-doc-cvs] cvs commit: alsa-guide.xml
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 06:58:55
Message-Id: 200603250659.k2P6x2pZ004357@robin.gentoo.org
1 fox2mike 06/03/25 06:59:01
2
3 Modified: alsa-guide.xml
4 Log:
5 Removed stupid section on catting /dev/urandom. Closes bug #119019 as well.
6
7 Revision Changes Path
8 1.65 xml/htdocs/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml
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10 file : http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml?rev=1.65&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=gentoo
11 plain: http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml?rev=1.65&content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=gentoo
12 diff : http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml.diff?r1=1.64&r2=1.65&cvsroot=gentoo
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14 Index: alsa-guide.xml
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16 RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml,v
17 retrieving revision 1.64
18 retrieving revision 1.65
19 diff -u -r1.64 -r1.65
20 --- alsa-guide.xml 1 Jan 2006 11:51:43 -0000 1.64
21 +++ alsa-guide.xml 25 Mar 2006 06:59:01 -0000 1.65
22 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
23 <?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8"?>
24 -<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml,v 1.64 2006/01/01 11:51:43 neysx Exp $ -->
25 +<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml,v 1.65 2006/03/25 06:59:01 fox2mike Exp $ -->
26
27 <!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
28
29 @@ -18,8 +18,8 @@
30 <!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 -->
31 <license/>
32
33 -<version>2.10</version>
34 -<date>2005-09-10</date>
35 +<version>2.11</version>
36 +<date>2006-03-25</date>
37
38 <chapter>
39 <title>Introduction</title>
40 @@ -605,29 +605,6 @@
41 <body>
42
43 <p>
44 -The irritating way to check your soundcard is to see if you can hear static on
45 -the speakers. This isn't exactly fun, but hey, it tells you the card is
46 -configured and working.
47 -</p>
48 -
49 -<pre caption="Bring on the static">
50 -# <i>cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp</i>
51 -</pre>
52 -
53 -<note>
54 -<path>/dev/dsp</path> is a symlink to <path>/dev/sound/dsp</path> and should be
55 -automatically created. Try re-directing the output to
56 -<path>/dev/sound/dsp</path> in case you don't get a "No such file or directory"
57 -error.
58 -</note>
59 -
60 -<p>
61 -You should hear static. Press <c>Ctrl + C</c> to stop. If you don't hear
62 -anything, now is a good time to go back and check/trace out the issue and
63 -rectify it.
64 -</p>
65 -
66 -<p>
67 Finally. Some music. If everything above is perfect, you should now be able to
68 listen to some good music. A quick way to test is to use a command line tool
69 like <c>media-sound/madplay</c>. You could also use something more well known
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