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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news From: sab@yang.develop.vega.org (Stephen Kiernan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: RealAudio3.0 & FreeBSD2.1.6R Date: 1 Apr 1997 07:14:50 GMT Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 23 Message-ID: <5hqcla$bup@boursy.news.erols.com> References: <333ECEE9.41C67EA6@earthlink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lee-as1s14.erols.com X-Received-On: 1 Apr 1997 07:14:50 GMT X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 In-Reply-To: <333ECEE9.41C67EA6@earthlink.net> To: Jon Pummell <pummell@earthlink.net> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38178 In article <333ECEE9.41C67EA6@earthlink.net>, Jon Pummell <pummell@earthlink.net> writes: >I just downloaded raplayer3.0 for FreeBSD (dynamic IP). I have a >ProAudio Spectrum 16 sound card. But, when I try to play the welcome.ra >file I get an error message "cannot open audio device". Workman (audio >cd player) works just fine!? The www.realaudio.com/help was of no help >for FreeBSD. > >Thanks >Jon Make sure you don't have an audio server running (like NAS or OSS), since it effectively grabs /dev/audio for itself. The RealAudio player needs to access /dev/audio and if it can't you get the "cannot open audio device" message. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen J. Kiernan | Sab - Hardcoder of VegaMUSE ][ kiernasj@erols.com | Vega's WWW page: http://www.vega.org/ kiernasj@connix.com |--------------------------------------------------------- --------------------- My personal WWW page: http://www.connix.com/~kiernasj/