[nas] nas under freebsd4.1probs

[Jon Trulson]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, gerrie wrote:

> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 09:19:51 +0200 (SAST)
> From: gerrie <gerrie at trispen.com>
> To: nas at radscan.com
> Subject: [nas] nas under freebsd4.1probs
> 
> Hello
> 
> I sincerely hope this list is still active...
> 

	It still is.  In spurts. ;-)

> Been trying to get NAS 1.4.1 going under FreeBSD4.1 to no avail. Since
> I've got no soundcard going at the moment, I've set up the PC speaker
> as /dev/pcaudio.  I've got no input device...so is it okay to comment
> out the whole inputsection in the config file?  I've tried both with
> and without this section, with the debugging turned up to 10.  When I
> start the server, absolutely no debug info is generated.  And the
> process just sits there.  I can't connect to the NAS server, and
> netstat -na shows nothing listening on the port.  Any pointers?
> 

	The output will go to syslog - so I'd peek around in there
(whereever you store those things).

	In the nasd.conf output section, do you have the device defined as
/dev/pcaudio?  I've never tried that myself, but all the code is
there.  Does truss show anything happenening?  If it couldn't deal with
the audio device, nasd will usually quit with a 'error creating block
info' or some such.  

	As for commenting out the input section, if you do so, then NAS
will use it's internal defaults (which will probably be to use one of the
/dev/dsp devices).  NAS is geared for full-duplex operation, so I doubt
that setting it to pcaudio will work for the input section, unless the
kernel driver supports opening for reading and writting at the same time.  

	Anyone else used the pcaudio stuff?


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