[Xastir] Xastir Sound on Win XP Pro

[James Cour]

Michael,

This one was a struggle for me too.  Here is what I did:

1.  In Xastir Configure, I just have the word "auplay" with no options.

2.  I start Xastir from a batch file that reads as follows:

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@echo off
SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
SET MAGICK_HOME=/usr
SET CYGWIN_ROOT=\cygwin
SET PATH=.;%CYGWIN_ROOT%\bin;%CYGWIN_ROOT%\usr\X11R6\bin;%PATH%

if not exist %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix\X0 goto CLEANUP-FINISH
attrib -s %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix\X0
del %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix\X0
:CLEANUP-FINISH
if exist %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix rmdir %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix

start XWin -multiwindow
run nasd -b
run /usr/local/bin/xastir xastir

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So, load NASD from the Windows O/S, not from the BASH shell.  The batch file
above does not even display the BASH window since you should not need it
except when doing updates and recompiling (I have a different batch file for
that).  I found I had problems if I used the "NASD -b -local" snytax so I
removed that.  Since I did that, Xastir sounds have been working fine.

Oh, you do know that you have to have the NASD sound drivers installed,
right?  Get the NAS-1.6-win-binary.zip file here:

http://nas.intra-links.net/download.php

Unzip it to a new directory then delete README.TXT and CYGWIN1.DLL.  Copy
the rest of the files to C:\Cygwin\bin (or wherever you bin directory is).
Then you should be good to go.  I am running XP Home, but I don't think that
should matter.

73,
Jim



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "CWO3 Michael A. Sterba" <cwo.usnr at verizon.net>
To: "xastir" <xastir at xastir.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 9:53 AM
Subject: [Xastir] Xastir Sound on Win XP Pro


> Hello All,
>
>     I'm new to this arena of play and been trying to get Xastir to play
with
> auplay. I haven't succeeded in this adventure and am turning more globally
> for ideas (Thanks Curt!). Jerry (N7YGE) recommended the following...
>
> In Xastir; auplay -i -v 99
> And in the Bash; nasd -aa &
>
> What I'm getting is "Can't connect to audio server"
>
> I'm operating XP Pro with the full installation of Cygwin. The only extras
> compiled into Xastir is Imagemagick and Shapelib. Since these are graphic
> support programs, I don't believe they have any impact.
>
> So, is there any suggestions or directions for me to play with?
>
> Thanks for your time.....
>
> Michael - KG7HQ
>
>
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