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Date:      Fri, 28 Feb 2003 21:17:19 +0000
From:      "desmond james" <desmondjames@hotmail.com>
To:        dkelly@hiwaay.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Configuring sound
Message-ID:  <F44Q8Jgkk2luvGOdDLx0000a75d@hotmail.com>

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>This is a fairly recent FreeBSD? The instructions you quote sound >quite 
>old.

I'm running 4.7 and I thought I had a recent version of the handbook. I'll 
try give it a try and let you know.



>From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
>To: desmond james <desmondjames@hotmail.com>
>CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>Subject: Re: Configuring sound
>Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 14:09:06 -0600
>
>On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 06:37:07PM +0000, desmond james wrote:
> > I need help configuring my sound. I was using the freeBSD hand book
> > accomplish this task. I have on board sound, and added the option:
> >
> > options PNPBIOS
> >
> > into the kernel, as the handbook said, and restarted my system. The 
>kernel
> > loaded but I had no sound. When I start X, KDE gives me the following
> > message:
>
>Back up. Don't fret about X until we get the basics taken care of. Not
>until you have a pcm in dmesg, and mixer(8) behaves. This is a fairly
>recent FreeBSD? The instructions you quote sound quite old.
>
>Also you don't say anything about your sound hardware.
>
>In dmesg you do no list a pcm device so there is no wonder you don't
>have sound. As root type, "kldload snd.ko". Then check dmesg again to
>see if something was found. Or simply type "mixer" to see if there is a
>sound device you can set volume levels on.
>
>If kldload probes found something then based on its entry in dmesg you
>might be able to guess exactly which /modules/snd_*.ko you need and load
>only that one in the future. Most automatically load snd_pcm.ko too.
>
>--
>David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
>=====================================================================
>The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
>capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.


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