From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 6 19:43:50 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42A3716A4CE for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2004 19:43:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pd5mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0223143D2F for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2004 19:43:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flowers@nekulturny.org) Received: from pd3mr3so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr3so-ser.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.179])2003))freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 13:37:09 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml2so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.146]) by pd3mr3so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I2100376IHXA5D0@pd3mr3so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 13:37:09 -0600 (MDT) Received: from procyon.nekulturny.org (S0106000d56e6b1f7.cg.shawcable.net [68.144.91.127]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0I2100E0XIHW1N@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 13:37:09 -0600 (MDT) Received: from procyon.nekulturny.org (localhost.nekulturny.org [127.0.0.1]) i76JawZb001448; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 13:36:58 -0600 (MDT envelope-from flowers@nekulturny.org) Received: (from flowers@localhost) by procyon.nekulturny.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i76JawC2001447; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 13:36:58 -0600 (MDT envelope-from flowers) Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 13:36:57 -0600 From: Danny MacMillan In-reply-to: <20040729205515.65199.qmail@web14104.mail.yahoo.com> To: Sandbox Video Productions Message-id: <20040806193657.GA1299@procyon.nekulturny.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i References: <20040729205515.65199.qmail@web14104.mail.yahoo.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sound Driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 19:43:50 -0000 On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 02:55:15PM -0600, Sandbox Video Productions wrote: > Starting KDE I always get this message. Then it just > stalls > > Sound server informational message: > Error while ititializing the sound driver: > device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Device not > configured) > The sound server will continue using the null output device I used to get that error when I started KDE without having loaded the driver for my sound card. However the impact was just that I couldn't hear any sound; KDE still started and ran well (but quietly). Depending on what sound card you have, it is likely that you will want to add the following to /boot/loader.conf: snd_pcm_enable="YES" That's assuming that you don't have it compiled into the kernel (it isn't by default). However, while that should fix the error message when KDE loads, it probably won't resolve whatever is causing KDE to stall. Still, you have to take things one at a time. -- Danny MacMillan