Re: [Plib-users] Onboard Sound Support?

[Steven W. <st...@ba...>]

Try catting stuff to /dev/dsp too.  It's possible that Flightgear uses
/dev/dsp instead of /dev/audio.

- Steve

On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Andy Ross wrote:

> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 14:53:23 -0800
> From: Andy Ross <an...@ne...>
> Reply-To: pli...@li...
> To: pli...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Plib-users] Onboard Sound Support?
>
> 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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