--- a/etc/sounds/README	Mon Aug 13 08:50:06 2007 +0200
+++ b/etc/sounds/README	Mon Aug 13 08:50:29 2007 +0200
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 This directory contains some mu-law encoded SunOS 4.1 sound files.  
 
-If you're running XEmacs on the console of a SparcStation or SGI
-machine, you can use these sounds to replace the default beep.  See the
+You can only play sound files if you are running on display 0 of the
+console of a machine with native sound support or running a NetAudio
+server and XEmacs has the necessary sound support compiled in.
+
+You can use these sounds to replace the default beep.  See the
 documentation of the `sound-alist' variable, and the functions
 `load-default-sounds' and `load-sound-file' from lisp/prim/sound.el.