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Music and Sound

Activate the Sound Module

/# setup -f sound
Do you want Sound support? (y/n) y
   1) SoundBlaster
   2) PC-Speaker
Your choice (1/2) 1

Would you auto-probe soundcard IRQ (y/n) y

Enter SB_PORT [220] [Enter]
Enter SB_IRQ [5] [Enter]
Enter SB_DMA [1] [Enter]
Enter SB_DMA16 [5] [Enter]

If the sound card is not supported, we must be content with the activation of the PC loudspeaker.

Save of the Adjustments

/# setup -s tutorial01

muLinux Sound Programs

Wave Generator

/# wave 440 2

A oktave more highly, thus next A, is achieved with the double frequency:

/# wave 880 2

We receive an assistance with the option -h.

/# wave -h

We experience in such a way that we also with the option - c the sound output to the PC loudspeaker to reroute know.

/# wave -c 880 2

Sound Recording

/# mount /dev/fd0 /a
/# mkdir /a/soundfiles
/# cd /a/soundfiles
/# vrec test.wav

We can terminate the recording with [Ctrl][C ]. With ls we check whether also really a file test.wav one produced. We receive assistance again with the option -h.

Play Sound Files

/# vplay test.wav

Sound files in the file format .au can directly to the device file /dev/audio are output:

/# cat file.au > /dev/audio

CD Player

/# cdp

So one can activate the CD player on a console and continue to work on the other consoles. Or one terminates the program also q, whereby playing is not terminated (background process). For terminating playing the program must be started still times. With SCSI CD-ROM drives the Player does not function.

Piano ;-)

/# piano

The keys serve    as piano keys. Further there is the program paganini , which plays a melody. Both programs are shell Skripte. It is worthwhile itself to look at this times more exactly:

/# less /usr/games/piano

Note: There is the instruction with the "normal" Linux beep as acoustic signal.