Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 15:52:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: Martin Hasenbein <mh-freebsd-questions@Space.Net>, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen <mekanix@privat.dk>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Gnome 1.4 and FreeBSD 4.3 / Soundproblem under FreeBSD 4.3 Message-ID: <20010724155143.A6609-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <200107241848.f6OImcb06487@ptavv.es.net>
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I ran into the same problem when I first started with Gnome. After killing an restarting esd enough times, it finally started correctly, and Gnome sound has worked ever since. It's really weird the way esd behaves. Joe Clarke On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:46:32 -0400 (EDT) > > From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> > > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > > > That's what it should do. > > > > ls /dev/snd* > > > > Should return a sndstat device, but /dev/audio* and /dev/dsp* are the main > > players. If audio is a problem, check the mixer(8) settings. > > > > I have a similar system and have never been able to get the sound to > work right. Oddly, realplayer works fine! But I can't play a wav and > Gnome is silent. > > I did find a message in the archives that said that this could be > fixed by booting Windows and then re-booting FreeBSD, but I don't have > Windows available, so I have never been able to try it. > > The message said that once Windows had been started that the audio > would work until the system lost power. Then you need to boot Windows > again. > > Maybe this is not the problem, but, if you can boot Windows, it might > fix the problem. > > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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