From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 7 18: 0:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8935C37B41F for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 18:00:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-63.215.119.124.dial1.chicago1.level3.net ([63.215.119.124] helo=there) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16Z0Ke-0007iE-00; Thu, 07 Feb 2002 18:00:09 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Bob Giesen To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: SoundBlaster Live! or PCI512 help Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 20:00:02 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a SoundBlaster PCI512 -- which, I've read, is essentially the same as a Live! card. I can't get mine to make a sound in FBSD. (Sings like a canary in m$, so I know it works...) If you're familiar with getting either (PCI512 or Live!) card working and have spotted anything I've missed or screwed up, I'd love to hear from you. I have been searching the FBSD site and Googling the web (oh, yes, I've RTFM, too:-) ) and am coming up short. I've found several references to getting these cards working, but I've tried all that I've found and my speakers still sit silently... Here's what I've done: I've compiled a new kernel with device pcm: ... device pcm ... The kernel now finds the card at bootup: pci0: audio0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 8 Feb 7 19:39 audio0 -> audio0.0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 4 Feb 7 19:39 audio0.0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 0x00010004 Feb 7 19:39 audio0.1 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 0x00020004 Feb 7 19:39 audio0.2 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 0x00030004 Feb 7 19:39 audio0.3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 4 Feb 7 19:39 dsp -> dsp0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 6 Feb 7 19:39 dsp0 -> dsp0.0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 3 Feb 7 19:39 dsp0.0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 0x00010003 Feb 7 19:39 dsp0.1 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 0x00020003 Feb 7 19:39 dsp0.2 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 0x00030003 Feb 7 19:39 dsp0.3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 5 Feb 7 19:39 dspW -> dspW0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 5 Feb 7 19:39 dspW -> dspW0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 7 Feb 7 19:39 dspW0 -> dspW0.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 7 Feb 7 19:39 dspW0 -> dspW0.0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 5 Feb 7 19:39 dspW0.0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 5 Feb 7 19:39 dspW0.0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 0x00010005 Feb 7 19:39 dspW0.1 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 0x00010005 Feb 7 19:39 dspW0.1 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 0x00020005 Feb 7 19:39 dspW0.2 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 0x00020005 Feb 7 19:39 dspW0.2 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 0x00030005 Feb 7 19:39 dspW0.3 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 0x00030005 Feb 7 19:39 dspW0.3 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 2 Feb 7 19:39 midi0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 6 Feb 7 19:39 mixer -> mixer0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 0 Feb 7 19:39 mixer0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 6 Feb 7 19:39 music -> music0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 8 Feb 7 19:39 music0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 4 Feb 7 19:39 pss -> pss0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 9 Feb 7 19:39 pss0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 10 Feb 7 19:39 sequencer -> sequencer0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 1 Feb 7 19:39 sequencer0 The handbook listed the "midi" device, but I got only a "midi0" device. Is that okay? The handbook recommended re-making the devices if one or more were missing, so I did so. Still, I got no "midi" device. Anyway, I've tried several different tools that should play audio CD's, wav and/or mp3 files, and not a peep emerges from my speakers. (Yes, they're amplified and turned on.) As for the app's I've tried -- I've tried the CD player that comes w/ Gnome (which correctly identifies different CD's via the database on the net and seems to be playing them (as the elapsed track time changes in the display)), but no sound comes out. Curiously, I just tried a different command (about which I know very little, so I might have used it wrong) and got an odd error: # play /usr/X11R6/share/gnome/sounds/info.wav sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Device busy Any ideas? Is there a sure-fire way to test my setup (in case I'm just using sound app's incorrectly)? Any and all help will be thoroughly appreciated. Thanks, Bob ------------------------------------------------------- -- Number of US states that claim test scores in their elementary schools are above national average: 50 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message