Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 11:41:49 +1100 From: "David Kelly" <dkelly60@optushome.com.au> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: soundcard install Message-ID: <007101c19326$43d99da0$f429a4cb@CO3024476A>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Is there a simple configuration program or simple way to install a soundcard? I have spent hours reading the documentation and just go around in circles. i.e " To use your sound device, you will need to load the proper device driver. This may be accomplished in one of two ways. The easiest way is to simply load a kernel module for your sound card with kldload(8). Alternatively, you may statically compile in support for your sound card in your kernel." Then it goes on about configuration " If you have one of the above cards, you will need to add: device pcm" and " For a non-PnP ISA card, add: device pcm device sbc0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 flags 0x15" but then there is no information about how to do this or use this after editing the configuration. Also the 'kldload' is this part of what I have to do? There is no examples of how to use it in the docs. I am sorry to have to email you as I am sure that you get lots of this sort of thing from new people but I am truly confused and need help? I have decided to switch over to freeBSD as it performed much faster on my PC than Linux but sound has been a real challenge for me which it was not with Linux (in 3 different versions eg redhat, mandrake and debian) and help will be greatly appreciated. David Kelly [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2712.300" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is there a simple configuration program or simple way to install a soundcard? I have spent hours reading the documentation and just go around in circles.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>i.e " <FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>To use your sound device, you will need to load the proper device driver. This may be accomplished in one of two ways. The easiest way is to simply load a kernel module for your sound card with </FONT><A href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=kldload&sektion=8"><SPAN class=CITEREFENTRY><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN class=REFENTRYTITLE>kldload</SPAN>(8)</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>. Alternatively, you may statically compile in support for your sound card in your kernel." Then it goes on about configuration </FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>" If you have one of the above cards, you will need to add: device pcm" and </FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>" For a non-PnP ISA card, add: </FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>device pcm </FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>device sbc0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 flags 0x15"</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>but then there is no information about how to do this or use this after editing the configuration. Also the 'kldload' is this part of what I have to do? There is no examples of how to use it in the docs.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am sorry to have to email you as I am sure that you get lots of this sort of thing from new people but I am truly confused and need help? I have decided to switch over to freeBSD as it performed much faster on my PC than Linux but sound has been a real challenge for me which it was not with Linux (in 3 different versions eg redhat, mandrake and debian) and help will be greatly appreciated.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>David Kelly</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><BR><BR> </DIV></FONT></FONT></BODY></HTML>help
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