From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 14 00:15:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA01088 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:15:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts6-line16.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA01077 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:15:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA02266; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:15:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:15:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Sai Rama Krishna Susarla cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: realaudio not working from browser In-Reply-To: <33F1AC6B.167EB0E7@cs.utah.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Sai Rama Krishna Susarla wrote: > Hi, > I downloaded realaudio player 3.0 onto my FreeBSD2.2 machine. When I > click on a realaudio file's link on Netscape, it starts the player, but > the player says "cannot open /dev/audio" > No, I don't have any audioserver process running at that time. > This problem is intermittent; sometimes it works and sometimes it > doesn't. > But when I play a realaudio file from command line, it always plays > properly, > I have a soundblastercard and my /dev/audio looks like, > crwxrwxrwx 1 bin bin 30, 4 Mar 28 06:28 audio* > > Can anybody see any problem here? > I have another FreeBSD machine on which the player works properly most > of the time. What does 'cat /dev/sndstat' report? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo