on 3/4/99 10:47 PM, Colin Wood was rumored to have said...

>Greg Evans wrote:
>> Just wondering the current status of audio in 1.3.3.. I downloaded amp 
>> from the 1.3.2 packages and installed it and got an 'unable to open audio 
>> device' error, other than that it looks like it would have worked, hence 
>> my wondering about audio's status :)
>
>we don't have /dev/audio for mac68k.  it's kind of a back-burner project
>for me at the moment, tho.  i've got some clue as to how the ASC and EASC
>chips work, but there are still a few details that need to be worked out
>before i fully get what's going on there and can implement the /dev/audio
>framework.  there is another gentleman, keiki sunigawa (hope i spelled
>that correctly) who was also working on it at one point.

Colin,

Hey, at least it is a project.... :)

>either way, tho, you'll get nothing better than a console beep on
>ASC-based machines, and nothing more than a click on EASC-based machines
>under 1.3.X, and this isn't going to change for 1.4, either.  sorry...

no problem....just had to find out if it was a NetBSD problem or a 'Greg 
is being stupid' problem <g>