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Date:      Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:15:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Sai Rama Krishna Susarla <sai@cs.utah.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: realaudio not working from browser
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970814001508.2059Z-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <33F1AC6B.167EB0E7@cs.utah.edu>

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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?

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