Subject: Re: audio players/recorders
To: Berndt Josef Wulf <wulf@ping.net.au>
From: Frank van der Linden <frank@fwi.uva.nl>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/22/1996 10:24:20
Quoting Berndt Josef Wulf,

> Nathaniel D. Daw wrote
> > 
> > Berndt Josef Wulf <wulf@ping.net.au> writes:
> > 
> > > I tried raplayer for the FreeBSD version. The program starts up fine,
> > > but when trying to play a file it complains about not finding the
> > > /dev/dsp device. NetBSD doesn't seem to have this device.
> > 
> > link /emul/freebsd/dev/dsp to /dev/audio.
> > 

> I tried that, but it doesn't work.

FreeBSD uses the Voxware drivers (now called USS I think), originally
from Linux. The interface to those drivers is quite different, so 
it is quite unlikely that you get a FreeBSD sound binary to work.

- Frank