From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 1 23:12:28 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id XAA28891 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 23:12:28 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA28885 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 23:12:25 -0800 Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id XAA00999; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 23:12:10 -0800 From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199512020712.XAA00999@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: How to play an *.au file? To: kline@tao.thought.org (Gary D. Kline) Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 23:12:07 -0800 (PST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Gary D. Kline" at Dec 1, 95 09:03:30 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 746 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > On my Sun at work I've got a neat *.au of Big Ben sounding, and a script > that sounds the bong on the hour. The script uses the sun ``play'' > binary, but I haven't found anything equivalent on my 2.0.5 CD ROM. > > So what's the FreeBSD equivalent? When I cat the file to /dev/audio, > it hangs... Well do you have an audio board in your machine? has it been configured into the kernel? if not (A) you can still do audio (at Lo-Fi) by compiling in the pcaudio device (pca) and CATting the file to /dev/pcaudio recognisable sound but bretty poor quality though (from that tiny speeker that goes 'Beep' sometimes..) > > Thanks for any tips. > > -- > Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public access uNix > >