From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 21 12:51:32 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4932516A4CE for ; Sat, 21 May 2005 12:51:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailout11.sul.t-online.com (mailout11.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6582043D55 for ; Sat, 21 May 2005 12:51:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from fwd20.aul.t-online.de by mailout11.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 1DZTRv-0004p8-00; Sat, 21 May 2005 14:51:27 +0200 Received: from Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (XNySMaZHZeyehFwtRS79lehr+0Ka+Hj1z28WsrcCsCMOQ5nLewqkw2@[217.83.30.43]) by fwd20.sul.t-online.de with esmtp id 1DZTRg-0jwGa80; Sat, 21 May 2005 14:51:12 +0200 Received: from Magellan.Leidinger.net (Magellan.Leidinger.net [192.168.1.1]) j4LCpCsP094545; Sat, 21 May 2005 14:51:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 14:51:19 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger To: Mathew Kanner 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.4a (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ID: XNySMaZHZeyehFwtRS79lehr+0Ka+Hj1z28WsrcCsCMOQ5nLewqkw2@t-dialin.net X-TOI-MSGID: e7365df1-3ad8-42fc-9de1-3c39c6216e58 cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sound support X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 12:51:32 -0000 On Fri, 20 May 2005 11:05:02 -0400 Mathew Kanner wrote: > On May 19, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > Arne W?rner 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. -- 0 and 1. Now what could be so hard about that? http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7