Re: /dev/audio - touch it to initialize?

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Feb 2, 2011, at 8:32 PM, Donald Lee wrote:

> When I boot from disk (not from CD!), the speaker starts pumping
> out "white noise", which I kill with
>
>         dd if=/dev/audio of=/dev/hull bs=1 count=1
>
> Has anyone else run into this?
>
> The machine is a "Quicksilver" G4, running NetBSD 5.0.2

What kind of audio hardware is it? I only have a snapper and various  
different awacs models here and they don't show this behaviour. It's  
possible that some mixer/output/whatever settings don't get committed  
to the hardware until something actually touches them.
Guess I need to get me one of the later G4 models one of these days.

have fun
Michael

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