From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 26 11:57:59 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92AA916A4B3 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2003 11:57:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from joaquin.xtraxion.com (f171090.upc-f.chello.nl [80.56.171.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAFB243F75 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2003 11:57:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mailing@rickhoppe.nl) Received: from rickhoppe.nl (laptop.xtraxion.com [192.168.1.100]) h9QJx4Fn099284; Sun, 26 Oct 2003 20:59:04 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mailing@rickhoppe.nl) Message-ID: <3F9C2741.5030204@rickhoppe.nl> Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 20:57:53 +0100 From: Rick Hoppe User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030901 Thunderbird/0.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jacob Rieper References: <200310261428.54731.jacob.rieper@verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <200310261428.54731.jacob.rieper@verizon.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting sound in KDE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 19:57:59 -0000 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: port 0xd400-0xd41f irq 11 at device 1.0 on pci2 >pcm0: > >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