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From: frank@fwi.uva.nl (Frank van der Linden)
Subject: Re: netscape/linux/java/sound
To: ndd2@columbia.edu (Nathaniel D. Daw)
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 00:13:12 +0100 (MET)
Cc: port-i386@NetBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951205114000.13779E-100000@vanakam.cc.columbia.edu> from "Nathaniel D. Daw" at Dec 5, 95 11:43:52 am
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> I am running the linux binary of Netscape 2.0b3 on NetBSD 1.1alpha, 
> current about a month ago, in order to experiment with java. The damn 
> thing works great, well, surprisingly well (crashes if my x-server isn't 
> in 8-bit mode when a java app starts, but other than that ...), but there 
> is no sound. Does anyone know how netscape attempts to play sound using 
> linux and if we emulate it? Whatever it is is statically linked in; libc 
> and libm are the only libraries it loads. Any ideas?

The Linux emulation currently has no sound support (but it's 2nd on my
list-of-things-to-do). However, Netscape should try to play music through
external programs, so this should just be a matter of providing these
external programs. The best way to do this would be via a .mailcap file
(this should be documented somewhere..)

- Frank