From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 28 0:20:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from teapot06.domain1.bigpond.com (teapot06.domain1.bigpond.com [139.134.5.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AFCA537BC75 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 00:20:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from snorkel@bigpond.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by teapot06.domain1.bigpond.com (NTMail 3.02.13) with ESMTP id la782871 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:21:20 +1000 Received: from CWIP-T-010-p-223-35.tmns.net.au ([203.54.223.35]) by mail1.bigpond.com (Claudes-Aquatic-MailRouter V2.8a 1/477944); 28 Jun 2000 17:21:18 Message-ID: <3959A71B.DFD06656@telstra.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:19:55 +1000 From: Wobbly Organization: TANTRUM X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Klos Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sound configuration? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Klos wrote: > > Hello, Hi John, It would appear that what you have done is all that's required. As a relative novice all I can tell you is that if you want to play CD's or mp3's, all you need do now is just grab a player such as xmms & set the preferences within that. xmms then calls upon several plugins to handle input/output of various sources. I also installed a small mixer called aumix which, along with xmms, can be installed from /usr/ports/audio Rosco. > > OK. There's no sound documentation. Please don't RTFM me, or tell me to > see man pcm(4), or so on, as it has no relevant information. > > Anyway, I have several computers with FreeBSD 4, and I've already > recompiled the kernels with pcm support. From dmesg: > > pcm1: at port 0x534-0x537,0x388-0x38b,0x220-0x22f irq 5 drq > 1,0 on isa0 > > So now what? I haven't a clue what devices in /dev need to point to what, > and documentation is not forthcoming. Try searching for it yourself before > accusing me of not trying. > > I am a little upset about this because it is something that should be > somewhat simple, but there is no information anywhere. Should I find > enough information, I would LOVE to make a small page to help out > others. But frankly, as someone who has spent hours looking for some help, > I am disappointed. > > Please help, > John Klos > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message