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Date:      Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:41:31 +0200
From:      Aniruddha <mailing_list@orange.nl>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can't get soundcard to work
Message-ID:  <1223502091.4635.3.camel@debian>
In-Reply-To: <20081008210853.GA97002@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk>
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Thanks for the help! Here are the answers:

> > > > cat dmesg > /dev/dsp
> > > >> su: /dev/dsp: Operation not supported
> 
> This is a weird error message. Don't know whether /dev/dsp exists or
> not - worth checking.

ls /dev/d
da0      da2      dcons    devstat  dsp0.0   dsp1.0   
da1      da3      devctl   dgdb     dsp0.1   dumpdev 

> I don't know why you seem to have 2 sound cards but I'd have a look at
> getting the Intel sound card going. Put:
> 
> snd_hda_load="YES"
> 
> in /boot/loader.conf
Done

> Reboot & then see what kldstat(8) and mixer(8) tell you. 

# kldstat 
Id Refs Address    Size     Name
 1    6 0xc0400000 97c8a8   kernel
 2    1 0xc0d7d000 15524    snd_hda.ko
 3    2 0xc0d93000 4a62c    sound.ko
 4    1 0xc0dde000 6a2c4    acpi.ko
 5    1 0xc68ea000 10000    ext2fs.ko


# mixer
Mixer vol      is currently set to 100:100
Mixer pcm      is currently set to  75:75

> If that looks reasonable have a go at playing an mp3 or wav with
> mplayer. Mplayer might give you some debugging output if it doesn't
> work.

The output from mplayer 
[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Operation not
supported



-- 
Regards,

Aniruddha







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