Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 20:57:53 +0100 From: Rick Hoppe <mailing@rickhoppe.nl> To: Jacob Rieper <jacob.rieper@verizon.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting sound in KDE Message-ID: <3F9C2741.5030204@rickhoppe.nl> In-Reply-To: <200310261428.54731.jacob.rieper@verizon.net> References: <200310261428.54731.jacob.rieper@verizon.net>
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Jacob Rieper wrote: >I am having trouble getting my soundcard to work in 5.1 stable. It didn't >automatically detect the Soundblaster Live card so I added it to the kernel >with kldload snd_emu10k1.ko and rebooted. It then shows up under pcm0 like >this > >pcm0: <Creative EMU10K1> port 0xd400-0xd41f irq 11 at device 1.0 on pci2 >pcm0: <Cirrus Logic CS4297A AC97 Codec> > >Looking through usenet, it seems I should run MAKEDEV snd0 or something in >/dev to create the mixer and stuff. However, MAKEDEV has been removed from >5.1. > >Help! > > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Have you tried the official instructions on http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html ? You'll see that FreeBSD 5.0 and later do not need to use MAKEDEV, because devfs(5) automatically creates device nodes. I don't know if this helps you much further, but now you know you don't have to worry about MAKEDEV. Regards, Rick Hoppe
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