From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 19 15:00:24 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B7201065674 for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:00:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gautham@lisphacker.org) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B28AD8FC1D for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:00:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws18 with SMTP id 18so5594703vws.13 for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:00:16 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.100.98 with SMTP id ex2mr978996vdb.219.1303223898772; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 07:38:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.163.8 with HTTP; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 07:38:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1303199909.11924.6.camel@amnesiac.contorgroup.ro> References: <1303199909.11924.6.camel@amnesiac.contorgroup.ro> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:38:18 +0000 Message-ID: From: Gautham Ganapathy To: bw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS on USB / Sound on alienware m11x X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:00:24 -0000 On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 7:58 AM, bw wrote: > On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 19:23 +0000, Gautham Ganapathy wrote: >> > Under /dev, I can see six devices dsp0.0,dsp1.1,dsp2.1,dsp3.1,dsp4.0 >> > and dsp5.1. I tried playing an mp3 file using mpg123 and gave each of >> > these devices using the -a option, but none of them worked. The output >> > tab under the GNOME sound preferences shows the devices dsp0, dsp1, >> > dsp2, dsp3, dsp4 and dsp5. None of them seem to work either. >> > >> > Any ideas on how to get the wound working? >> > >> > Gautham >> > >> >> Update: This is strange. Apparently, sound works under VLC (default >> settings) , but not on Totem, flash or mpg123. > > I had the same problem. Sound is being sent to /dev/dsp0 by default, > which is the NV card. Try setting hw.snd.default_unit with sysctl. > Probably "sysctl hw.snd.default_unit=4" would work, from what I see, you > should hear sound if you cat a file to /dev/dsp4. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > It worked ! Totem, flash and mpg123 works fine. VLC stopped working, but after switching the output module to OSS, even that came up ! Now to install fbsd on the laptop! If only the builtin wireless worked, but I can make do with USB wifi for now Thanks and regards Gautham