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From: Karel Joop Bosschaart <karelj@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl>
To: Allix Primus <alleve@idirect.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: PNP Sound Card Installation ?
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On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 11:03:22PM -0500, Allix Primus wrote:
> I have a plug and play sound card and since BSD has no real sound utility
> like linux (I am told) I was wondering how I can set it up ? So far I've
> tried adding the line "device pnp0" to the kernel , but had no luck after
> trying to get the mixer working. Anyone know where I can get help on this ?
> 
> Oh yea, OSS installed , but could only play mp3s, and got tons of dsp /
> sequencer errors  (and yes it is the FreeBSD version)
>
ehm, do you know what soundcard you have? 
You can try

controller pnp0
device pcm0

in the kernel and do MAKEDEV snd1 (That's snd1 not snd0).
For me this worked for SB16 ViBRA16X, ViBRA16C and SB PCI128
with es1370 chip. 

man pcm is also useful.

Good luck,
Karel.


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