Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 15:32:38 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> To: Gail Jacobs <gsjacobs@netactive.co.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Troubleshooting: Sound Message-ID: <39B7ED56.E160F97@mitre.org> References: <NEBBJDGDILFCPEBEFIPNEEMFCBAA.gsjacobs@netactive.co.za>
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Gail Jacobs wrote: > > Dear freeBSD.org, > > Dear freeBSD.org, > > I have recently installed freeBSD on a partition on my primary hard disk, > which also runs windows 98. > I have set up most of my other hardware (with alot of my friend's help), but > neither of us could get my sound to co-operate. > It is a Creative Soundblaster 16 (ISA). My friend know's his UNIX a whole > lot better than me, and he tried just about everything he could think of, he > runs a machine with a PCI soundcard, and his auto-detects it on start-up, as > far as i can see 'pcm' is not initialized, on start-up it displays neither a > failure or success message. in my config file in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf the > line reads "device pcm", and we tried the line "device pcm0 at isa? ...etc" > but to no avail. i am not sure what the problem is. i am really hoping you > could help me, as i am sure it is something stupid i have missed. another > thing, the IRQ is reported as 10 by windows, but BSD reports my USB > controller to be on 10, so i disabled USB in my bios as i have the > motherboard expansions, but no physical ports so it is of no use to me. then > BSD reported my Compaq Netelligent PCI network card to be using IRQ 10, and > now windows reports it to be on IRQ 9. It sounds like you have an ISA PNP SB16, try the following lines in your kernel: device pcm device sbc Also, you may want to read the manual for pcm(4) and sbc(4). Also, you may want to read LINT in the configuring soundcards section for more info on the sound configuration in FreeBSD. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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