From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 3 19:11:24 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA17376 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 19:11:24 -0800 Received: from bubba.tribe.com ([205.184.207.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA17371 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 19:11:18 -0800 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.tribe.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA03834; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 19:10:00 -0800 From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199512040310.TAA03834@bubba.tribe.com> Subject: Re: where is my /dev/audio? To: rjs@infi.net (Ron Steele) Date: Sun, 3 Dec 1995 19:10:00 -0800 (PST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Ron Steele" at Dec 3, 95 03:38:01 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 694 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I have a SoundBlaster 16 installed. I believe I have the kernel > configured to use it, but I have no /dev/audio. How does one > go about configuring this device? Oddly, I can play cd's routed > through the SoundBlaster using cdplay. To create /dev/audio and friends (more specifically, the device files), do this as root: cd /dev MAKEDEV snd0 The existence of these files and the existence of the driver in the kernel are orthogonal questions (and both need the answer 'yes' before you can hear anything! :-) -Archie _______________________________________________________________________________ Archie L. Cobbs, archie@tribe.com * Tribe Computer Works http://www.tribe.com