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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!news.mid.net!newsfeeder.gi.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.ac.net!news.serv.net!nntp.teleport.com!news.reed.edu!usenet.ee.pdx.edu!sirius.cs.pdx.edu!daver From: daver@sirius.cs.pdx.edu (Dave Roethig) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Using pca device? Date: 12 Aug 1996 14:12:09 GMT Organization: Portland State University, Portland, OR Lines: 42 Message-ID: <4une3p$icr@walt.ee.pdx.edu> References: <4ugl3k$ae@walt.ee.pdx.edu> <4ui8el$1k5@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: sirius.cs.pdx.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : daver@sirius.cs.pdx.edu (Dave Roethig) wrote: : > How do I use the pca (sound through speaker) device? : By putting the device configuration line into your kernel config file: : device pca0 at isa? port IO_TIMER1 tty : It operates on the normal PC speaker, but naturally, its sound is : rather terrible, and it puts a fair amount of load onto the machine by : drastically increasing the timer interrupt rate. : The device node /dev/pcaudio is supposed to be created by default. If : you are adventurous, you can symlink it to /dev/audio, so other : programs will believe you've got a Sun /dev/audio compatible sound : device. : The implementation used to have several glitches. Some of the most : serious have been fixed right in time before 2.1.5, quite some other : ones only later in 2.2-current (by July 20, 1996). So if you try : playing XBoing over it, you will note several minor anomalities even : in FreeBSD 2.1.5. In FreeBSD 2.1, don't be surprised if the system : hangs or crashes at all when you're doing this. (Dumping single .au : files to /dev/pcaudio used to work, but XBoing opens/writes/closes the : sound device again for each new sound, so it puts much more load on : it.) : -- : cheers, J"org I compiled a new kernel and it will play a .au file. Is there a way to change the volume?? Thanks! dave daver@cs.pdx.edu