From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 7 23:19:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABBB537B71A for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 23:18:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wash@iconnect.co.ke) Received: from [64.110.74.50] (helo=poeza.iconnect.co.ke) by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 14aufD-0002NL-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 10:16:44 +0300 Received: from wash by poeza.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14auiw-000Ngs-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 08 Mar 2001 10:20:34 +0300 Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 10:20:34 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd sound config Message-ID: <20010308102034.C90545@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <000801c0a7ac$2321b900$bc54f6d1@hammond> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000801c0a7ac$2321b900$bc54f6d1@hammond>; from "mark anthony paul hammond" on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:45:31AM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD poeza.iconnect.co.ke 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Location: Mombasa, KE, East Africa Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * mark anthony paul hammond [20010308 08:40]: wr= iting on the subject 'freebsd sound config' mark> i recently installed freebsd 4.2 and finally got the sound card to wo= rk, but when i try to play mp3s, i get the message /dev/dsp not configured,= when i try to open a mixer program, i.e.., kmix, xmmix,etc., i get the mes= sage /dev/mixer not configured, as root i have changed the permissions and = that does not work, as root i try to do the above and still get these messa= ges. half the fun is trying to figure these obstacles out, but i'm impatie= nt. i use mobile racks on my system so i can dedicate entire hard drives t= o linux, freebsd, and that god awful windoze. naturally everything works ok= in windoze, and it was pretty easy to setup sound in linux, but bsd is a l= ittle more complicated.=20 mark> to clarify, the sound card is working, when i line in sound it i= s heard, but trying to use any of the many mp3 players etc, i get the messa= ges. please help! i'm hoping i will find the answer before you reply but i = remain hopeful. So my Q is what makes you think you got the sound card working? I guess it = still is not working,no? Did you do cd /dev and=20 =2E/MAKEDEV snd0 ????????????? =20 -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Inter-Connect Ltd., wash@iconnect.co.ke 5th Flr Furaha Plaza Tel: 254 11 222604 Nkrumah Rd., Fax: 254 11 222636 PO Box 83613 MOMBASA, KE. Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction list= en=20 to weather forecasts and economists?=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message