From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 16 2: 8:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FBD937B479 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 02:08:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA02121; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 02:08:23 -0800 Message-ID: <3A13B216.7142DE57@urx.com> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 02:08:22 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: wibble Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sound woes (ducks for flame) References: <3A1379A6.1BED1827@obsidian.co.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG wibble wrote: > > Hello all... > > Okay.. I've searched the archives and read almost every post on sound, > I've Man'd snd, pcm and sbc. I've looked in the handbook. I've > recompiled my kernel about eight times on a VERY VERY (let me stress > this) -=*****VERY*****=- slow machine and I'm out of patience :) > > So can ANYONE PLEASE help me out. The card does work - I've booted off > a dos disk and run the Creative Diagnose thing. The sound plays. The > card is not plug and play but is software settable. I went for the > defaults - IRQ 5 LowDMA 1 HighDMA 5 port 220. > > So now what do I put into the kernel to make this puppy play nice? > > PCM doesn't work. Niether does PCM0 at? blah blah..... I've tried with > the sb bridging driver. So now, what in you professional opinions, would > work best? First of all, you need to tell us something. The behavior of the sound cards is considerably different with 3.x and 4.x. Which sound card? They make some really good ones and then come the AWE's and the SbLives. With so many choices and without a clue, you won't even get a real suggestion. I have 3 different Sound Blaster cards and they all work on 4-stable. I only had to add the sbc bridge on the really old SB-16. The rest I added "device pcm", and made and installed my kernel and after the reboot did a Makedev snd0. With 3.x, you have a pcm0 and either snd0 or snd1 depending on the type of SB. Kent > > Frustrated regards > warren > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message