From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 6 13:18:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (mta01-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3782A37BA83 for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2000 13:18:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.253.84.105]) by mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000806201809.GTRL26680.mta01-svc.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Sun, 6 Aug 2000 21:18:09 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA00515; Sun, 6 Aug 2000 21:17:56 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 21:17:55 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Bob Collins Cc: Questions Subject: Re: SB 16 now works Message-ID: <20000806211755.B254@parish> References: <398DBE85.74A31133@bellsouth.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <398DBE85.74A31133@bellsouth.net>; from pineypl@bellsouth.net on Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 03:37:41PM -0400 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 03:37:41PM -0400, Bob Collins wrote: > Many thanks to Ben Smithurst and Mark Ovens regarding my lack of sound. > Both of these FreeBSD gentlemen responded to my questions to get the > aforementioned card to work. The short of it is that I was able to > config the kernel with support and could see with dmesg and sndstat that > things should work. They did not. After a little fiddling and following > a suggestion to > > #cd /dev > #sh MAKEDEV snd0 > > I tested the sound and it works. Thanks guys. > > I did #MAKEDEV sndo and that did not do it! Go figure, > I had to do #sh MAKEDEV snd0 > Ah, you will notice that *I* said do ``./MAKEDEV snd0'', note the leading ``./''. /dev isn't in your path (unless you've got a really weird setup) so you need to give the path (in this case the current directory). Remember that UNIX doesn't search the current directory by default like DOS/Windows does (security reasons). When you prefix ``sh'' then MAKEDEV becomes an argument to sh rather than a command name so it *is* searched for in the current directory. > Also I gotta say, FreeBSD kicks ass in a big way. It is amazing to be > able to do so much to a system and NOT requite a reboot! I am well on my > way to leave M$ way behind me.... YIPPEEEEEE > > Funny thing is that I cannot yet get music to play from the cd through > the sound card. Oh well, one hurdle at a time. And yes, I do have the > sound cable connected. ;-) > The basic test here is to cat(1) a .au file to the audio device: cat /usr/local/lib/TkDesk/sounds/door_open.au > /dev/audio There isn't, AFAIK, any .au files in the std FreeBSD system, the example above comes with the Tkdesk port. > -- > Bob Collins Driving my '95 E36/5 Active >> Sport > on the www.InternetCoast.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- If I buy a copy of WinDelete, and it doesn't delete Windows, am I entitled to my money back? ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message