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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!netnews.worldnet.att.net!cbgw2.att.com!oucsboss!spam.cs.ohiou.edu!undetermined From: bfriedma@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Boris A. Friedman) Subject: help:sound under 1.1 + how much memory does NetBSD really use? X-Nntp-Posting-Host: spam.cs.ohiou.edu Message-ID: <BFRIEDMA.96May19171337@spam.oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu> Lines: 28 Sender: postmaster@spam.cs.ohiou.edu X-Nntp-Posting-Date: Sun May 19 17:13:37 1996 Organization: Ohio University Mathematics Department Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 21:13:37 GMT 1) Perhaps, this is a silly question. I don't even have a sound card here. All I want is to be able to hear the bell, when, for instance, someone requests a talk on a passive xterm. But my kernel (this is 1.1), disables it, and I don't know how to get it back. Ok, since I am at it, let me ask more - can I play some .au files (in some weird way maybe) without a sound card? If yes, how to do it under 1.1? I have a kernel source, so if I need to config smth. in, I can do that. Oh, I should of course mention that this is Gateway 2000 Intel 486, 33MHz. This thing has 20mb memory, ~350M harddrive (although this is prob. irrelevant) 2) This computer is not my own - it belongs to school, that's why I maybe vague at times (I don't open it too often). But when it boots, BIOS reports 20Mb of memory. NetBSD gives the following three boot messages, which I am a little bit concerned about: Apr 28 20:46:20 zhivago /netbsd: real mem = 20578304 Apr 28 20:46:20 zhivago /netbsd: avail mem = 17375232 Apr 28 20:46:20 zhivago /netbsd: using 276 buffers containing 1130496 bytes of memory. Which one refers to the physical memory that NetBSD uses? Probably, the third is vm or whatever, so I'm not concerned, but the second message throws me off. Does it mean that NetBSD doesn't see 3mb of my memory? Any help will be appreciated. Boris.