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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: PnP naivety
To: jwb@xioa.cosmic.org (Joe Beiter)
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 04:08:34 +0100 (MET)
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> I loaded Luigi's PnP and snd drivers and I now am able to cat au files out
> /dev/audio1 and sound does work.. however when I run au -aa or try to run
> raplayer they claim they can't open the device..
> 
> au -aa:
> Fatal server error:
> could not create audio connection block info

what is aa ?

> raplayer just claims it cannot open the sound device. I did recreate the
> link from /dev/audio to /dev/audio1
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  11 Oct  1 21:44 /dev/audio -> /dev/audio1
> 
> and even tried just creating /dev/audio with mknod using the maj and minor
> numbers of /dev/audio1.
> 
> Does anyone know what I am missing in this equation?

not sure, but probably you also need to create links for /dev/dsp,
/dev/dspW and /dev/mixer

	Cheers
	Luigi