Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 15:35:30 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu> Cc: wibble <wibble@obsidian.co.za>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sound woes (ducks for flame) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0011161534300.19198-100000@rac4.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10011161239190.27355-100000@qbert.gpcc.itd.umich.edu>
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I don't recall seeing what kind of card this guy is using; that would be helpful info. ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Tim McMillen wrote: > > > Have you considered that maybe your sound card is not supported? There > aren't THAT many cards that are. I have a Via sound chipset on my > motherboard (new support in 4.2RC1 but I still just get white noise with > pcm). So I went to Best Buy and bought a $19 ISA sound card that said it > supported SB,SB pro and windows sound system standards. I recompiled my > kernel with pcm and had sound right away for xmms. So if you're really > frustrated, buy a new card or check the HARDWARE.TXT files to see if your > card is supported. Or try to use a bridge driver (I've no idea how). > At least make sure you've upgraded to 4.1.1 at least. Maybe wait a few > days for 4.2-release. Good luck, > > Tim > > > ----------------------------------------------- > "A government big enough to give you everything > you want, is a government big enough to take > from you everything you have." > -Gerald Ford > ----------------------------------------------- > > On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, 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? > > > > Frustrated regards > > warren > > > > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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