From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 26 20:53:39 2004 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 3967116A509 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:53:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.bitfreak.org (mail.bitfreak.org [65.75.198.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C89C43D41 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:53:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dmp@bitfreak.org) Received: by mail.bitfreak.org (Postfix, from userid 10800) id B12A219F2D; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:55:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 209.152.53.188 (SquirrelMail authenticated user dmp); by webmail.bitfreak.org with HTTP; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:55:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1172.209.152.53.188.1098824114.squirrel@209.152.53.188> In-Reply-To: <1098820254.417eaa9e77a47@login.bella.lunarpages.com> References: <1098820254.417eaa9e77a47@login.bella.lunarpages.com> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:55:14 -0700 (PDT) From: "Darren Pilgrim" To: "Siavash EDRISI" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Finding the Right Sound Driver ... 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: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:53:39 -0000 [Redirected from -newbies.] On Tue, October 26, 2004 12:50 pm, Siavash EDRISI said: > Hi! > > I have been reading the text "Setting Up the Sound Card" at > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html > > in order to find and install the right driver for the sound card in my > i386. The hardware is an ESS 1869 PCI. Before I had WinXP installed on > this hardware and it reported that the location of the card is: PCI > slot 3 (PCI bus 0, device 14, function 0) > > I did whatever is described in the section 7.2.1 of the manual: > > 1- I checked the entries in "/boot/defaults/loader.conf". The right line > was > snd_sbc_load="NO" > I imagine this means that the driver is already somewhere on the harddisk! It means the kernel will not attempt to load the snd_sbc module at boot. > 2- Then I inserted the following line into /boot/loader.conf > snd_sbc_load="YES" > > 3- I booted the system. > > Right after calling "startx" and entering KDE I got (as usual) the error > message that the sound server could not find the file /dev/dsp. This may be due to a number of reasons. Among them are the snd_sbc driver not being the right driver for your hardware and KDE/X not being configured with the correct device. The first step is to provide copies of the outputs of the commands `uname -a`, `dmesg` and `kldstat`. Did you first try loading snd.ko (4.x) or snd_driver.ko (5.x) and see which driver finds your hardware? > As I read in the manual configuring a custom kernel with sound support is > just a second method and can be used alternatively. So I am not sure if I > really have to do something in the kernel or not, since the first efforts > did not help! Typically you don't need to recompile the kernel just to add something like a sound driver. Loading the module works just fine. Just to be sure, please provide a copy of your kernel configuration file so it can be checked. > Could someone please tell me what I still have to do? Send a reply with the requested, necessary information.