From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 18 07:10:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1CAD16A4CE for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 07:10:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.romat.com (mail.romat.com [212.143.245.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FE9043D67 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 07:10:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gilad_bsd@romat.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.lan [127.0.0.1]) by mail.romat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D31E7EB2A9; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 17:10:15 +0200 (IST) Received: from mail.romat.com ([192.168.1.10]) by localhost (ladon.lan [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 42438-05; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 17:10:14 +0200 (IST) Received: from romat.com (unknown [192.168.1.199]) by mail.romat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 809D1EB29D; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 17:10:14 +0200 (IST) Message-ID: <400AA0B6.3040806@romat.com> Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 17:05:26 +0200 From: Gilad Rom Organization: Romat Telecom User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd@sp1r1t.de References: <200401181444.i0IEiGpU024042@webmailer.hosteurope.de> In-Reply-To: <200401181444.i0IEiGpU024042@webmailer.hosteurope.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnome startup : \"can\'t find /dev/sound/mixer\" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 15:10:39 -0000 freebsd@sp1r1t.de wrote: > Hello everybody, > > > I have FreeBSD 4.8 installed on an AMD thunderbird 800 and i am using gnome. > everytime i start gnome, i get the error message \"cant open /dev/sound/mixer\". > There is a Sound Blaster 128 Pro PCI installed in the box, but neither does /dev/sound > exist, nor can i spot anything that looks as if it could be a sound card in the output of dmesg. > > a threat at linuxquestions.org [1] exists that seems to describe the same problem and someone claims the solution was to rebuild the kernel with soundcart support, but noone did further comment on that proposal. > > is there no sound card support in freebsd 4.8 by default? do i have to rebuild the kernel? > or is there another solution to my problem? > > thanks for your annswers, > > tim > freebsd@sp1r1t.de > > [1] http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/17/2003/06/2/63923 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" FreeBSD does not include sound support by default in the GENERIC kernel. There are, however, loadable kernel modules which you can load to introduce sound support into the kernel. try 'kldload snd_pcm', and then 'cat /dev/sndstat'. /dev/sndstat should contain a description of your sound card. Also, try 'man pcm'. Gilad.