From: Art Taylor (root@fab4box.wa.com)
Date: 04/19/93 

From: root@fab4box.wa.com (Art Taylor)
Subject: Re: *.au --> PC speaker (revised)
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1993 06:08:39 GMT

In article <jacob.735191012@mayhem> jacob@mayhem.cwru.edu (Jacob DeGlopper) writes:
>In <1993Apr19.013426.6820@debbie.cc.nctu.edu.tw> eea78555@twins (Hwan-Rei Lee) writes:
>
>>yu@I.am.here (Hanson Yu [·s¦Ë¥æ¤j]) writes:
>>: It works for root.
>>: But for a user, it says "can't get I/O permissions".
>>chmod 777 /dev/audio
>
>Actually, the au-play program needs to run setuid root. It doesn't
>use /dev/audio.

Is there a sound driver(that uses /dev/audio) for cardless speaker-only
machines?
I suppose, if maj14min4 doesn't work(I do this to show I've looked in the
FAQs:-)), a named pipe should work(and then modifying auplay). Oh well, I
shall stumble around to see...:-) 

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