Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 13:00:15 -0600 (MDT) From: Steve Jorgensen <steve@khoral.com> To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sound on Dell Inspiron 5000 Message-ID: <200007251900.NAA19854@benson>
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> I am trying to make sound work on Dell Inspiron 5000 with FreeBSD > 4.0-release. The dmesg displays: > chip2: <ESS Technology Maestro 2E Audio Controller> port 0x1400 - 0x14ff > irq 5 at device 8.0 on pci0. > I put the following in the configuration file: > device pcm > device pcm0 at isa? port 0x1400 irq 5 drq 1 flags 0x15 > I use mp3blaster to play a mp3 file. It says fail to open device file. > Thanks for any help. This isn't supported yet under the pcm sound drivers, though rumor has it someone is working on it. However, the OSS driver at http://www.opensound.com has a driver for 4.x that supports the Maestro chip set. It will cost you money to get a license for it, but they have a demo that lets you use the driver for 3 hours at a time. The license is about $30, if I remember right. I've notice that it doesn't seem to work very well with the linux emulator: realplayer was choppy and sound dropped out a lot, and vmware crashed the machine when I enabled sound in the emulator. However, it does play mp3's very well using mpg123. For me at least, thirty bucks was worth it for some sound support as opposed to none. :^) Steve ----------------------------------------------------------- Steven Jorgensen steve@khoral.com steve@spukhaus.com ------------------------------+---------------------------- Khoral Research Inc. | PHONE: (505) 837-6500 6200 Uptown Blvd, Suite 200 | FAX: (505) 881-3842 Albuquerque, NM 87110 | URL: http://www.khoral.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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