From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 22 20:51:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA18224 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 20:51:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA18219 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 20:51:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA23487; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 20:50:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 20:50:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Tetsuji Rai cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sound driver trouble In-Reply-To: <199808200528.OAA00330@MailAndNews.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Tetsuji Rai wrote: > I'm using FreeBSD 2.2.7, however, these days I have trouble in sound > driver. Some applications (executor-demo, rvplayer5.0) cannot open audio > device. I have written the sound driver section in the kernel config file > and execute MAKEDEV snd0 to make sound devices (mixer, sequencer, dsp0, > audio0, dsp, dspW, dspW0, etc.). What is interesting is that xgalaga > (an X windows game) can use audio although it says "The sound could not be > opened." So I need some help. Any suggestion would be appreciated. > Thanks in advance. Unfortunately the sound support isn't consistent under all OSs. The best thing we have for that is OSS but it costs money ($20, but money). rvplayer is a known goofball, I think it requires OSS or some hackery. check the multimedia mail archives for info. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message