Re: [Plib-users] Onboard Sound Support?

[Andy R. <an...@ne...>]

David Scott Hamilton Giraud wrote:
> When I "cat /bin/ls > /dev/audio" I hear static...

Just for the record, I'm the one who told him to do that; /bin/ls was
the first guaranteed-to-be-present file that came into my head.  I
just didn't want to see the poor guy flamed for following
instructions. :)

The first theory was that another program had the device open (most
motherboard sound drivers don't support more than one stream at a
time).  But since the audio device does indeed generate noise, the
problem seems to me to be either a plib or a driver bug.  I know that
plib does a few ioctl's on the device that "cat" (of course) does not.

Andy

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