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Date:      Sun, 24 May 1998 00:20:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Benjamin A. Oldham" <oldhamb@carleton.edu>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: linux audio vs freebsd audio
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980524002005.9142n-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980521094132.1747A-100000@pcOldhamB.Res.carleton.edu>

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On Thu, 21 May 1998, Benjamin A. Oldham wrote:

> So I've downloaded a linux sound player to use under X, compiled it fine,
> start it up, and it opens up nicely.  The only problem being the error
> "bind: Invalid argument," which I'm guessing means that it's not binding
> to the audio devices that I'm using.  (Obviously, no sound actually gets
> played).  I'm using the standard FBSD sound drivers (not Luigi's), and am
> wondering if someone knows whether or not I could simply create a sym link
> to the appropriate drivers, and if so, what the links should be named?  I
> _think_ that the device that should be used under FBSD is going to be
> /dev/dsp, which is a link to /dev/dsp0.  
> 
> any ideas?

bind() is a network system call.  Apparently it uses something that
FreeBSD doesn't expect.  perhaps you could get a prebuilt binary for linux
and use it under the linux emulator?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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