From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 25 17:47:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3482037BE1A for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 17:47:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA14167; Fri, 26 May 2000 10:17:18 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 10:17:18 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Drew Sanford Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sound on Dell inspiron Message-ID: <20000526101718.F13702@freebie.lemis.com> References: <00052516442100.00324@dorado.planetwe.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <00052516442100.00324@dorado.planetwe.com> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 25 May 2000 at 16:36:32 -0500, Drew Sanford wrote: > Hi, > I have FreeBSD 4.0 (from the CD) on a Dell Inspiron laptop. I'm running > the KDE desktop, and was wondering how to fix an error with the mixer. When > trying to start the mixer I get the following error: > > kmix: could not open mixer. > Perhaps you have no permission to access the mixer device. > Login as root and do a 'chmod a+rw /dev/mixer*' to allow the access. > > Well, I can't find /dev/mixer* ect...I am assuming that since I never actually > did it, that sound on this laptop is not configured. I'm familiar with linux, > and alot of stuff in BSD looks "the same, only different", so I'm assuming I'm > going to have to configure the sound. My questions are these: > > Is the configuration process for sound on FreeBSD and Linux basicly the > same, or is this one of the things thats different? I don't think there's anything in common, but I don't know Linux. > Has anyone configured sound on one of these beasts before, and > can they provide some clues? In order to answer that question, we need to know what kind of laptop you have. "Inspiron" isn't enough: they have model numbers as well. Also, the output of dmesg is important. > I'm not sure what sort of card is in this laptop either (I suppose I > could boot NT and look, but I'd really rather not.) I might be able to find that out if I knew what model you have. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message