From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 9 01:27:42 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D42316A4CE for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 01:27:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC43943D41 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 01:27:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gert.cuykens@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id f1so1021006rne for ; Tue, 08 Feb 2005 17:27:41 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=q+tt6B54Ns9qcMd7pMA+iib085lfW6NzRf2GVb7KcZ8dU5cwR0tMaRrCEcgHZ8C+PR3B9UnULEeazG6dSmXNhSA8oGylepcmUAYPSqzfYs9N0t1Vj/yAUNMJy+jZGfx6X3l3c/6Z88FIiSNqo66N29M7J4jzieLycfKIOh3iJDw= Received: by 10.38.59.46 with SMTP id h46mr149710rna; Tue, 08 Feb 2005 17:27:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.74.23 with HTTP; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 17:27:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 02:27:41 +0100 From: Gert Cuykens To: albi In-Reply-To: <42095CDF.7060507@scii.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <200502081911.33486.ean@hedron.org> <42095CDF.7060507@scii.nl> cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Help to get Sound functioning on FreeBSD 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Gert Cuykens List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 01:27:42 -0000 On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 01:44:15 +0100, albi wrote: > Ean Kingston wrote: > > > I've been having problems getting sound to work on FreeBSD 5.3. It worked find > > on 4.10 (before the upgrade) using the new sound system. > > ----------- quote handbook ------------ > If you are not sure which driver to use, you may try to load the > snd_driver module: > > # kldload snd_driver > > This is a metadriver loading the most common device drivers at once. > This speeds up the search for the correct driver. It is also possible to > load all sound drivers via the /boot/loader.conf facility. > > Note: Under FreeBSD 4.X, to load all sound drivers, you have to > load the snd module instead of snd_driver. > > A second method is to statically compile in support for your sound card > in your kernel. The section below provides the information you need to > add support for your hardware in this manner. For more information about > recompiling your kernel, please see Chapter 8. > 7.2.1.1 Configuring a Custom Kernel with Sound Support > > The first thing to do is adding the generic audio driver sound(4) to the > kernel, for that you will need to add the following line to the kernel > configuration file: > > device sound > ------------------ end quote ------------ > > you followed all of that ? (just to be sure) > and did you check the mixer-settings ? > > > Any suggestions on a simple command line tool to test the sound system out? > > in KDE you might encounter issues with artsd, > try ctrl-alt-F2, and then e.g. ogg123 (vorbis-tools) or mpg321 are > simple commandline tools to test your sound (in KDE there are some > small ogg-files for certain programs already, try locate or find) > > HTH > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > did you try www.opensound.com ? Works great for me