From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 27 01:17:19 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 6ADE516A4CF; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 01:17:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14F0343D31; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 01:17:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:17:21 -0500 Message-ID: <417EF71E.1080506@daleco.biz> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:17:18 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041023 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Siavash EDRISI References: <1098820254.417eaa9e77a47@login.bella.lunarpages.com> In-Reply-To: <1098820254.417eaa9e77a47@login.bella.lunarpages.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Oct 2004 01:17:22.0209 (UTC) FILETIME=[B5D7E110:01C4BBC2] cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org 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: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 01:17:19 -0000 Siavash EDRISI wrote: >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! > >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. > >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! > >Could someone please tell me what I still have to do? I would of course be very >thankful for more precise advices. > >Thanks in advance >Sia > > Hi, Sia! I'm taking the liberty of cc'ing this to a more appropriate forum. For further diagnosis, what is the output of "uname -a" ?? The instructions have changed recently, because the code changed fairly recently, and the age of your installation might help determine the solution to your problem. I'm fairly sure I've used this card before.... Kevin Kinsey