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Date:      Sun, 03 Jun 2001 18:05:35 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>
To:        Narles <crtb@cape.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org, crtb@tomato.crtb.net
Subject:   Re: Sound devs in 4.2?
Message-ID:  <3B1ADEDF.409A814A@urx.com>
References:  <200106040100.f54103p02423@tomato.crtb.net>

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Narles wrote:
> 
> I can't seem to build a kernel with audio devices configured!
> In FreeBSD 4.2Release, with either a PCI or ISA sound card,
> I have tried various combinations of
>     device pcm  (or pcm0 or pcm0 with params)
>     device snd  (ditto)
>     device sbc
>     device sb
>     device sbxvi
>     device sbmidi
>     device opl
> and can't get /dev/sequencer (among others) to appear.
> dmesg | egrep 'pcm|sb|midi'   announces
> 
>     pcm0: <AudioPCI ES1371> port 0x6500-0x653f irq 11 at device 13.0 on pci0

You only need to use device pcm with the Ensoniq Es1371. You have to 
cd /dev
sh MAKEDEV snd0 

before you have sound.

Kent

> 
> but /dev/{midi,music,pss,sequencer} remain "unconfigured".
> 
> I can send stuff through /dev/audio and hear it, but alas, all my
> audio software wants /dev/sequencer before anything else!
> 
> /dev/sndstat delivers this info:
> 
>     FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) May 10 2001 11:38:48
>     Installed devices:
>     pcm0: <AudioPCI ES1371> at io 0x6500 irq 11 (1p/1r channels duplex)
> 
> Neither LINT nor the man pages say whether I should have anything
> other than "device pcm" there; the suggestion in LINT is that the
> other devices belong with "device snd" which is said to be deprecated.
> 
>     Chuck Bacon - crtb@cape.com
>         "Good is better than evil 'cause it's nicer".  --Li'l Abner
> 
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Kent Stewart
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