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From: mbandy@superdec.uni.uiuc.edu (Harf)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: /dev/speaker problem
Date: 4 Oct 1994 02:13:46 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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	Any user may cat stuff into /dev/speaker, and raising the octave with
> too many times results in a kernel panic on an integer divide error.  This is
not good, but it could probably  be fixed with a very simple patch to the
kernel source code to test for the octave being raised too high.  I would
write the patch myself, except that I only started using FreeBSD yesterday,
and I haven't even had time to finish downloading the bindist yet, much less
the kernel sources.

	-- Matt Bandy (mbandy@superdec.uni.uiuc.edu)