Cannot find sound card in /dev/

[Eminent]

Hi,
I use Debian 8.7 jessie and I've installed it on vmware workstation. I connected a sound card to Debian virtual machine but it can't be visible in /dev, If it's not there, so where is it?

[Eminent]

Has someone any idea?

[Head_on_a_Stick]

I connected a sound card to Debian virtual machine

How?

[Eminent]

I connected a sound card to Debian virtual machine

How?

Using VMware Workstation

[L_V]

Assuming pulseaudio is installed, does this report something ?

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pacmd list-cards

(needs pulseaudio-utils package )
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fuser -v /dev/snd/*

[Eminent]

Assuming pulseaudio is installed, does this report something ?

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pacmd list-cards

(needs pulseaudio-utils package )
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fuser -v /dev/snd/*

Hi, Here you go:
# pacmd list-cards

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No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.

# fuser -v /dev/snd/*

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USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0:  eminent    1461 F.... pulseaudio

Assuming PulseAudio is installed

Yes, It has been installed.

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And this one:

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lspci | grep -i audio

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cat /proc/asound/cards

[Eminent]

And this one:

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lspci | grep -i audio

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cat /proc/asound/cards

# lspci | grep -i audio

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02:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 / Creative Labs CT2518 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 02)

# cat /proc/asound/cards

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 0 [AudioPCI       ]: ENS1371 - Ensoniq AudioPCI
                      Ensoniq AudioPCI ENS1371 at 0x2080, irq 16

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and

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lsmod | grep snd

[Eminent]

and

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lsmod | grep snd

# lsmod | grep snd

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snd_ens1371            23119  2 
snd_rawmidi            27023  1 snd_ens1371
snd_seq_device         13132  1 snd_rawmidi
snd_ac97_codec        118704  1 snd_ens1371
snd_pcm                88603  2 snd_ac97_codec,snd_ens1371
snd_timer              26868  1 snd_pcm
snd                    69472  10 snd_ac97_codec,snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_ens1371,snd_seq_device
soundcore              13031  1 snd
ac97_bus               12510  1 snd_ac97_codec
gameport               13449  1 snd_ens1371

[L_V]

What is the real problem ? Sound is working or not ?

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ls /dev/snd/*

[Eminent]

What is the real problem ? Sound is working or not ?

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ls /dev/snd/*

Yes, It works, I want to play a sound with cat sound.mp3 >/dev/snd command but I don't know how to do that.

[L_V]

Yes, It works, I want to play a sound with cat sound.mp3 >/dev/snd command but I don't know how to do that.

You should have clarified your need in your first post....
How do you want 'cat' command to decode mp3 ???
Install mpg123 and try

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mpg123 sound.mp3

Or if vlc installed:

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cvlc sound.mp3

[Eminent]

Yes, It works, I want to play a sound with cat sound.mp3 >/dev/snd command but I don't know how to do that.

You should have clarified your need in your first post....
How do you want 'cat' command to decode mp3 ???
Install mpg123 and try

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mpg123 sound.mp3

Or if vlc installed:

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cvlc sound.mp3

I'm sorry, Do you mean it's not possible to play sound with cat command?

[Eminent]

How can I install mpg123?

[L_V]

[Do you mean it's not possible to play sound with cat command ?

Try this to check if cat is an audioplayer

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man cat

How can I install mpg123?

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sudo apt install mpg123

If vlc is installed, just use cvlc.

[GarryRicketson]

I'm sorry, Do you mean it's not possible to play sound with cat command?

No it is not possible, the 'cat' command will not play sounds.
The OP might be interested in this little gem, https://packages.debian.org/stretch/sox
It has a 'play' command, and can do more then just play a sound, it can create sounds as well. example , this

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play -n synth .5 sine A4
 

plays a "A' note, 1/2 second, all I do is type a, (in the directory where I did this) How ever that might be a different topic, and there is a learning curve, the manual must be read carefully.
=========== edited ===
From the "sox' manual:

play "The Moonbeams/Greatest/*.ogg" bass +3
plays a collection of audio files whilst applying a bass boosting
effect,
play -n -c1 synth sin %-12 sin %-9 sin %-5 sin %-2 fade h 0.1 1 0.1
plays a synthesised `A minor seventh' chord with a pipe-organ sound,

[L_V]

I understood the question of Eminent was finally how to play sound.mp3 in command line, then more "music" than just sound.

For sound, beep can help:

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beep  -f 329.6 -l 250 -n -f 329.6 -l 250 -n -f 349.2 -l 250 -n -f 370.0 -l 500 -n -f 440.0 -l 250 -n -f 370.0 -l 250 -n -f 440.0 -l 250 -n -f 370.0 -l 250 -n -f 370.0 -l 250 -n -f 349.2 -l 250 -n -f 329.6 -l 250 -n -f 493.9 -l 250 -n -f 329.6 -l 250 -n -f 329.6 -l 500 -n -f 493.9 -l 250 -n -f 329.6 -l 250 -n -f 349.2 -l 250 -n -f 370.0 -l 500 -n -f 440.0 -l 250 -n -f 370.0 -l 250 -n -f 440.0 -l 250 -n -f 370.0 -l 250 -n -f 370.0 -l 250 -n -f 349.2 -l 250 -n -f 329.6 -l 250 -n -f 493.9 -l 250 -n -f 329.6 -l 250 -n -f 329.6 -l 500 -n -f 493.9 -l 250 -n -f 329.6 -l 250 -n -f 349.2 -l 250 -n -f 370.0 -l 750

ps: 'play' command requires sox and it dependencies to be installed;

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libopencore-amrnb0 libopencore-amrwb0 libsox-fmt-alsa libsox-fmt-base{a} libsox3 sox 

[GarryRicketson]

Your right, and hope it does not confuse the OP, interesting you used the "beep" example,
that is how I stumbled on to the "sox" program, Debian does have the "beep"command,which is use full to see if there is any sound at all, any way, OpenBsd does not have the beep command, but I used sox to create a beep command.
Hope I have not confused the OP now,...SOX does also require having a working sound card, so that would be the priority.
It just popped into my head, since the OP asked about using the 'cat' command to play the music, and all though the cat command does not work that way, they could use sox,and have a "play" command.
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garry$ play *.mp3  bass +3  

Plays all of my .mp3 files:
(it was hard to capture the output, but

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02 - cheek to cheek.mp3:

 File Size: 8.53M     Bit Rate: 192k
  Encoding: MPEG audio    Info: 2001
  Channels: 2 @ 16-bit   Track: 2
Samplerate: 44100Hz      Album: Very Best of Louis Armstrong 1
Replaygain: off         Artist: Louis Armstrong
  Duration: 00:05:55.44  Title: Cheek to Cheek

In:18.5% 00:01:05.85 [00:04:49.59] Out:2.90M [-=====|====- ] Hd:4.6 Clip:0    
Skipped (Ctrl-C twice to quit).

02 - something for sellers - henry mancini - a jazz latin beat - andy duran latin jazz big band(2).mp---snip-- 

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/home/garry/music/johncoltrane - blue train.mp3:

 File Size: 10.3M     Bit Rate: 128k
  Encoding: MPEG audio    
  Channels: 2 @ 16-bit   
Samplerate: 44100Hz      
Replaygain: off         
  Duration: 00:10:43.25  
In:10.5% 00:01:07.24 [00:09:36.00] Out:2.97M [-=====|====- ] Hd:2.1 Clip:0    
Aborted.

 

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Do you mean it's not possible to play sound with cat command ?

Try this to check if cat is an audioplayer

It used to be possible to pipe sounds directly to /dev/snd and play them using the cat command but not any more:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... in-dev-snd

EDIT: I don't think that would have ever worked with an MP3 file though.