From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 2 23:55: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F91437B7EF for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 23:54:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (unverified [208.26.241.22]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Tue, 2 May 2000 23:59:30 -0700 Message-ID: <390FCD2B.B59F9891@3-cities.com> Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 23:54:35 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brennan W Stehling Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sound blaster and snd0 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brennan W Stehling wrote: > > I had sound working before and it works so easily that I am confused as to > why it is not working now. I have a simple Sound Blaster card and my > hardware is plug n play. I think i can use the following kernel options > to get it to work. > > #controller snd0 > #device sb0 > #device sbxvi0 > #device sbmidi0 > #device awe0 > #device pas0 > > I have turned on the first two lines and the sound did not work. I turn > on the rest and it does not work. It just does not want to work. > > What I am now thinking is that I am forgetting this final step in the > build for this device... > > cd /dev; sh MAKEDEV snd0 I use "device pcm" in the kernel and did a "./MAKEDEV snd0" to get sound on 4.0. If you are using 3.4, you have to make snd1. Those are the only two things I did to make sound work with KDE. I had to enable system sounds in KDE and set kscd to the proper /dev/acd0c for the cdrom. Kent > > If I do that I am thinking that sound will work once again. Does that > sound right? What kernel options should I use exactly for my hardware? > > Here is some info from dmesg... > > PCI bus > Probing for PnP devices: > CSN 1 Vendor ID: CTL00f0 [0xf0008c0e] Serial 0xffffffff Comp ID: PNPb02f > [0x2fb0d041] > > I can provide more hardware info if necessary. > > Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin > projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com > > fortune: > A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block > of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an > elephant. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message