Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:24:21 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> To: Chris Rich <reject0@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems getting sound to work in 5.3 Message-ID: <20041027152421.GB80834@abigail.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <98ce952204102707342df48326@mail.gmail.com> References: <98ce952204102707342df48326@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 09:34:43AM -0500, Chris Rich wrote: > I've recently installed 5.3, the last time I installed FreeBSD(4.9) I > was able to get sound working by adding a device pcm into the kernel. > That did not work this time (of which I now know WHY it didn't work) > so after reading the man pages, the handbook on the freebsd.org > website, I still can't get it to work. > I have done the following things: > Recompiled the kernel with device sound. > using kldload to load different sound drivers (didn't work) > added snd_driver_load="YES" to loader.conf - with this i had a bit of > success because once i started KDE i heard sound, but after that > nothing would play. [...] The fact you hear something is a good news... Check mixer (the command) output, to see various volume/mixer levels. My advice: - keep snd_driver_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf - reboot the box - Do every step from 7.2.2 Testing the Sound Card section from the Handbook - and mail to this list the result of each step. Marc
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