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Date:      Thu, 9 Sep 1999 22:27:06 -0400
From:      "Bill A. K." <billieakay@yahoo.com>
To:        "Kyle Mobley" <kyle@mobley.org>, "FreeBSD Questions" <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Sound Blaster 16
Message-ID:  <002e01befb33$fb3f8320$01010101@bopper>
References:  <37D83266.FDF1FDC2@mobley.org>

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Hi,
     First of all, try cutting out all the sound entrys that you have in
your kernel config, and just put this in:

device pcm0

and recompile and see what happens
if that doesen't work, try using the pcm0 with the other lines you had (i.e.
instead of snd0)

and then
cd /dev
./MAKEDEV snd0 (yes thats snd not pcm) or whatever the kernel gives your
card e.g. pcm1 = snd1         pcm0 = snd0, etc

Let me know if that doesn't work

Oh, and make sure that your mixer's volume is up :)

Bill
billieakay@yahoo.com


----- Original Message -----
From: Kyle Mobley <kyle@mobley.org>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 6:19 PM
Subject: Sound Blaster 16


> Hello.
>
> I went and picked up a Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 today because i
> wanted to get sound on my FreeBSD 3.3-RC box. I got this card because it
> is supposed to be one of the most compatible cards with freebsd. This is
> what i was told on irc #freebsd on efnet. I put the card in, compiled
> into the kernel as follows:
>
> controller      snd0
> device sb0      at isa? port 0x220 irq 5 drq 1
> device sbxvi0   at isa? drq 5
> device sbmidi0  at isa? port 0x330
>
> I also compiled in POSIX
>
> options         "P1003_1B"
> options         "_KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING"
> options         "_KPOSIX_VERSION=199309L"
>
> The reason for this is xmms was giving me scheduling errors in
> /var/log/messages when i would try and play an mp3.
>
> After i compiled the kernel i continued to cd /dev ; ./MAKEDEV snd0
>
> After a reboot prospects looked quite well. the devices were all
> detected just fine with no errors.
>
> I login, startx, open xmms and still no sound. the mp3 file won't even
> play because of an error with the sound card configuration.
>
> I continued to removing sound from the kernel, recompiling and trying
> OSS because I wanted to see that if by chance it wouldn't lock up for
> once. Of course it did though. However I noticed this when I was
> configuring OSS. It detected the card as a Sound Blaster Vibra16. I
> suppose this is a sb16 just a new name for it? The card in the user
> manual is refered to as a Sound Blaster 16 but what ever. I figure this
> is doesn't matter anyway.
>
> So now I sit here completely confused and not knowing what to do. I have
> searched www.freebsd.org for a simple howto setup Sound Blaster 16.
> I guess I'm a bad "Web Surfer" because I couldn't find anything. :-)
>
> If someone could please get back to me on this issue as soon as possible
> i would greatly appreciate it.
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> -Kyle
>
>
>
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