From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Oct 20 18:59:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5525837B401 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 18:59:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pineapple.theshop.net (pineapple.theshop.net [66.210.104.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA1BC43E4A for ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 18:59:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott@bsdprophet.org) Received: from bsdprophet.org (9ab3d8ee6fb831ec347c23d820e39c47@[66.210.107.84]) by pineapple.theshop.net (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id g9L25i9s069230; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:05:44 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3DB35FC4.3020107@bsdprophet.org> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:00:36 -0500 From: Scott Corey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: leegold Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can not get sound card to work References: <20021020234354.98957E2AB@server2.fastmail.fm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org You guys must be smoking crack. my AWE64 works GREAT! leegold wrote: >>Hey, I also had the same problem. The AWE 64 just doesn't even make noise!. >>While its true that the manual has an example on set it up, it just >>didn't work. I tried recompiling the kernel many times, even a couple of >>"make world", both with FreeBSD 4.5 and 4.6.2 release. >> >>I gave up as I don't really need the sound to enjoy the system, but I >>think that there is probably an issue with the AWE64 and FreeBSD. >> >>By the way, the card is on a ISA slot and works fine when running win2k. >> > > > Same experience, my AWE64 worked fine in WIN2k and Mandrake Linux. > But I spent a solid week trying in FreeBsd - I tried everything - no > sound. > There's a commercial driver: http://www.opensound.com/ > I'm thinking of spending the money - there's free phone support too. > Really shook me up that FBsd can't PnP my sound less support it. > Of course we may be doing something wrong, some detail we are over > looking, > but I recompiled my kernel 20 times and searched the web for help like a > maniac, so > it makes sense at this point to buy the drivers. Very frustrating. > > > > >>Rafael > > -- > http://fastmail.fm - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an > unladen european swallow > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message