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Subject: Re: Audio through speaker???
To: PLAZAS_CHRISTIAN@mercury.csg.peachnet.edu (Christian)
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 20:14:17 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <8AC55303F0A@mercury.csg.peachnet.edu> from "Christian" at Jun 23, 95 01:48:30 pm
From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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> Hi,
>
> I remember reading a while back that .au files could be played
> through the pc speaker by doing a cat somefile.au > /dev/audio. I
> tried this and I get a message saying "device not configured" and
> when I try to do cat somefile.au > /dev/speaker I get a "permission
> denied" message. I tried to find info about configuring /dev/audio
> but could not find anything. Do I need another program to be able to
> do this? Can somebody out there please tell me how to configure the
> /dev/audio device?
Build a new kernel containing
device pca0 at isa? tty
pseudo-device speaker
Then cat file.au >/dev/pcaudio
>
> TIA____________
>
> Christian Plazas <plazas_christian@cc.csg.peachnet.edu>
> Columbus College, Columbus,GA
> 706.568.3045
> ______________________________________________________________________
>
--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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