<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>I figure my sound card is supported since I see evidence
<br>of it being recognized in the various output of cli<br>commands and in the log files I've checked.</blockquote><div><br><br>It should be, but I'm unfamiliar with Ensoniq (I use Soundblaster/Creative<br>Live these days). If the card is PCI it shouldn't be difficult to have native support for
<br>it already. If it is ISA, then all bets are off. I once attempted to get an ISA based sound card to work for Bruce. I wasn't entirely successful, I don't recall - maybe I was :).<br><br>I used to have an ISA card (Mozart chipset) years ago. At first, getting support was only possible through proprietary sound drivers (which I gladly paid for, only $20 yearly) since they worked well. Eventually it became unnecessary (about the time I switched to Mandrake, from Red Hat).
<br><br>My recommendation is similar, it seems, to Heather's. Rather than attempt to get your sound card to work with YouTube straightaway, try to see if the card itself is supported. Try playing a test wav or mp3 file with the available tools, such as mplayer, or even more low-level, try 'play' from a command line with a wav or mp3 file (play is a common-enough alias/symlink for an incarnation of 'sox'. If your card is supported, you should be getting some output when you do this. Even if you can't hear anything, there is a sign that the card is working (otherwise you'd get cryptic kernel messages, :"device not found", that sort of thing. If it looks like the file is playing, the next thing to do is to check your mixer settings, cabling of sound card output (are the cables going to the right device -- is that output device working, that sort of thing).
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