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From: John Lucas <jlucas@jnet.vi>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: "Voxware" for FreeBSD v2.1.x
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 12:51:46 -0400
Organization: University of the Virgin Islands
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Gardner Buchanan wrote:
> 
> In article <3288D701.41C67EA6@jnet.vi>,
>         John Lucas <jlucas@jnet.vi> writes:
> 
> >I would like to install the "Real Audio" player on my FreeBSD v2.1.0R
> >system. I need to find (from the raplayer docs):
> >
> >       * FreeBSD 2.1 with VoxWare 3.0 Beta sound driver
> >
> >I have been to "www.4front-tech.com", but there is currently no release
> >of VoxWare (now called OSS/Lite) for FreeBSD available for downloading.
> >I am certain there are users out there with RealAudio; where can I get
> >"any" suitable version of VoxWare?
> 
> I have installed the raplayer and have had good results.  Assuming you
> installed the kernel sources, you already have the necessary "VoxWare"
> bits.  Look in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT and find this section:
> 

You are dead right. I have all that in there, my problem was I was running the
NAS server "auvoxware" that prevented RealAudio from using the /dev/sndstat
device. Killing "auvoxware" allowed RealAudio to work. Now I have to find an
alternative to NAS as a "viewer" for wav, au, and snd files (sigh).

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