Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 14:51:19 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Mathew Kanner <mat@cnd.mcgill.ca> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sound support Message-ID: <20050521145119.400034c2@Magellan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20050520150501.GK10648@cnd.mcgill.ca> References: <20050518180004.39766.qmail@web41208.mail.yahoo.com> <20050519110317.1ycnbvxuucc040wg@netchild.homeip.net> <20050520150501.GK10648@cnd.mcgill.ca>
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On Fri, 20 May 2005 11:05:02 -0400
Mathew Kanner <mat@cnd.mcgill.ca> wrote:
> On May 19, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > Arne W?rner <arne_woerner@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > >You should use
> > > device sound
> > >and
> > > device snd_XXX
> > >(where XXX denotes your sound card)
> >
> > I suggest a different approach:
> > - "kldload /boot/kernel/snd*"
> > - "cat /dev/sndstat"
> > - have a look at the output and search for snd_XXX
> > - add 'snd_load="YES"' and 'snd_XXX_load="YES"' to /boot/loader.conf
>
> 100x I agree, except his question was 'why doesn't it compile'
> not 'how do I setup sound'.
Yes, but I decided to try to solve the problem he wanted to solve, not
the problem he noticed while he tried to solve the first problem. :-)
I think we should put some emphasis on
> getting the man page to recommend using kld's before recompiling the
> kernel.
ACK.
Bye,
Alexander.
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0 and 1. Now what could be so hard about that?
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