Question
Do DO servers have soundcards? If not how can I play audio?
- Posted on September 24, 2014
Asked by marksantolucito
The program ‘beep’ seems to run, but I don’t hear anything. Where is the sound going? If I want to do work with playing midi (PortMidi) is this possible too?
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To enable sound, you need to load a “dummy” sound card. You can do this with:
After doing so, you’ll notice that
/proc/asoundbecomes populated:You’ll also want to install
alsa-baseas it is not included on Ubuntu Server by default:This comment has been deleted