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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
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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.

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