From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 9 19:36: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.keycomp.net (www.keycomp.net [207.44.1.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0BA215C16 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 19:35:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billieakay@yahoo.com) Received: from bopper (kc-rmt03.keycomp.net [207.44.1.5]) by www.keycomp.net (8.8.5/SCO5) with SMTP id WAA12097; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 22:42:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <002e01befb33$fb3f8320$01010101@bopper> From: "Bill A. K." To: "Kyle Mobley" , "FreeBSD Questions" References: <37D83266.FDF1FDC2@mobley.org> Subject: Re: Sound Blaster 16 Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 22:27:06 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To: 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 > > > > 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