Date: 03 Jan 2002 18:59:43 -0500 From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Cherie & John Carri <cjcarri@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Configuring AWE64 sound card in FreeBSD 4.4 Message-ID: <1010102390.86152.23.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20020103155902.007abc70@mail.earthlink.net> References: <3.0.6.32.20020103155902.007abc70@mail.earthlink.net>
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On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 18:59, Cherie & John Carri wrote: > Hello, > I first tried FreeBSD (4.2) this summer to turn an old PC into a server > for a small intranet in my classroom, and have been so impressed with its > stability and general goodness that I want to try it as a desktop OS. To > that end, I now have FreeBSD 4.4 installed on another old PC, a 266 MHz > Pentium II with an Intel PD440FX motherboard and 48MB of memory. This > machine has a Creative Labs Soundblaster AWE64 sound card (ISA) installed. > According to dmesg, FreeBSD knows about the card and there appear to be no > conflicts. However I can't use the sound card because I don't know how to > configure it. If FreeBSD recognizes it and assigns a driver to it, you will see it called either pcm0 or pcm1. If it's pcm0, do: # cd /dev # ./MAKEDEV snd0 If it's pcm1, do: # cd /dev # ./MAKEDEV snd1 Then you should be set. Now, if FreeBSD just sees it as a ISA card plugged into the system, but doesn't assign it a pcm driver, you'll either need to do a kldload snd or add: device pcm to your kernel config, and recompile. Once you have the pcm driver loaded, you'll need to make your snd devices as described above. Joe > > Can anyone tell me how to go about configuring the AWE64 under FreeBSD 4.4? > The FreeBSD handbook mentions that there are some kind of loadable kernel > modules for sound card support, but doesn't explain how to use them or > which module is correct for my soundcard. Rather it explains how to compile > soundcard support into your kernel, an adventure I am not yet ready for! > > TIA, > -John Carri > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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