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Date:	Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:50:08 -0400
From:	Glenn Blank <glenn DOT blank AT lehigh DOT edu>
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: sound() function
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Well, Gisle's note might be encouraging, if sound() can be made to 
work.  So I tried recompiling my program using usleep(), declared in
unistd.h, instead of delay().  No dice.  The sound still doesn't play.
Any more suggestions?

Quoting Gisle Vanem <giva AT bgnett DOT no>:

> "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT gnu DOT org> said:
> 
> > Sorry, you are out of luck: `sound' works by writing to a certain
> > port, and XP doesn't allow direct access to ports.  So it cannot work
> > on XP.
> 
> Not true. sound() writes to ports 42h, 43h and 61h which works fine
> under Win-XP here (the port access is virtualised).
> 
> Maybe the OP uses delay() to hear the beep. djgpp's 
> delay() as we know has problems under Win-NT. So he should
> use usleep() instead.
> 
> --gv
> 


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Glenn D. Blank
Computer Science and Engineering Department
19 Packard Lab
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA 18104
http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~glennb

-- 
Glenn D. Blank
Computer Science and Engineering Department
19 Packard Lab
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA 18104
http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~glennb

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