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Date:      Fri, 23 Jun 1995 20:14:17 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        PLAZAS_CHRISTIAN@mercury.csg.peachnet.edu (Christian)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Audio through speaker???
Message-ID:  <199506231814.UAA24470@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <8AC55303F0A@mercury.csg.peachnet.edu> from "Christian" at Jun 23, 95 01:48:30 pm

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> 
> Hi,
> 
>     I remember reading a while back that .au files could be played 
> through the pc speaker by doing a cat somefile.au > /dev/audio.  I 
> tried this and I get a message saying "device not configured" and 
> when I try to do cat somefile.au > /dev/speaker I get a "permission 
> denied" message.  I tried to find info about configuring /dev/audio 
> but could not find anything.  Do I need another program to be able to 
> do this? Can somebody out there please tell me how to configure the 
> /dev/audio device?

Build a new kernel containing

device          pca0    at isa? tty

pseudo-device   speaker

Then cat file.au >/dev/pcaudio

> 
> TIA____________
> 
> Christian Plazas <plazas_christian@cc.csg.peachnet.edu>
> Columbus College, Columbus,GA
> 706.568.3045
> ______________________________________________________________________
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
FreeBSD blues.physik.rwth-aachen.de 2.0-BUILT-19950619 FreeBSD 2.0-BUILT-1995
0619 #1: Mon Jun 19 19:54:08 MET DST 1995     kuku@blues.physik.rwth-aachen.d
e:/usr/src/sys/compile/BLUESGUS  i386



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