Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 01:06:51 -0500 (EST)
From: "Nathaniel D. Daw" <ndd2@columbia.edu>
To: Frank van der Linden <frank@fwi.uva.nl>
Cc: port-i386@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: netscape/linux/java/sound
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On Wed, 6 Dec 1995, Frank van der Linden wrote:

> > 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..)

Sorry. Yeah, my mailcap pipes audio through sox and cat /dev/audio. This 
works fine for clicking on samples in netscape, but the audio I am not 
getting is that generated by java applets. I'm not sure that even uses 
helper applications; actually I'm not sure how it's done at all.

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