Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 00:13:51 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@ns1.thought.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: emachine's cheap sound config... Message-ID: <20010719001351.A42638@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <15190.33189.436956.629617@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 01:43:49AM -0500 References: <53908674@toto.iv> <15190.33189.436956.629617@guru.mired.org>
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On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 01:43:49AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> types: > > A year ago I bought a cheap emachine-500ix box to try > > out SuSE Linux on. To my surprise, everything auto- > > installed. The box has a cheap sound chip, but it's > > okay for sound effects. > > > > What FBSD sound config should I add to the KERNEL > > config file? Also, what X driver will get X11 up? > > X should be the same as for Linux; they both use XFree86. Sound - try > pcm with and without the sbc bridge driver. > > > This box has a solid Maxtor drive and I'm planning to > > use it as my gateway DNS server; behind a firewall or > > firewalls, everything else.... > > Why do you need - or even want - X or sound on such a box? > Sound, don't need, obviously; just wondering. This box, the next to be replaced, is antique enough to not be able to support sound.... and there are NPR broadcasts I'd like to listen to. X is another matter:: true, I'll rarely touch my DNS server once it's set, but it'd shore be nice to use two or more xterms and be able to cut and paste while getting things tuned. BTW, I checked the mail archives:: the ATI chip seems to need the Mach64 driver.... gary -- Gary D. Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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