On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:

> crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel  48, 128 Apr  5 11:58 /dev/audio0
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel  48, 192 Mar 25 12:31 /dev/audioctl0
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel  48,  16 Mar 25 12:31 /dev/mixer0
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel  48,   0 Apr  5 11:56 /dev/sound0

aha! that's the ticket! i must have been looking at an older/outdated 
hpcmips MAKEDEV script and used 47 for the major number... i can now play 
sound! ...  since my file system contains 1.5.1, the device files didn't 
exist and the 1.5.1 MAKDEV doesn't have audio* entries... i first had to:

su -
cd /dev
mknod audio0 c 48 128
mknod audioctl0 c 48 192
mknod mixer0 c 48 16
mknod sound0 c 48 0

(i also chmod'd the entries to 666)

i can now:

audioplay im_so_happy.au

:-)

billy 'i'm so happy with NetBSD' ball