Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:43:07 +0100 (CET) From: "Cordula's Web" <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: ogautherot@freesurf.fr Cc: list@SiddiquiFamily.org Subject: Re: Sound card Message-ID: <200311141043.hAEAh3fU025199@fw.farid-hajji.net> In-Reply-To: <20031114083315.12B6AE4A01@mail.freesurf.fr> (ogautherot@freesurf.fr) References: <200311132304.12797.list@SiddiquiFamily.org> <20031114083315.12B6AE4A01@mail.freesurf.fr>
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> > Can someone point me to enabling sound on FreeBsd 5.1. Also when i use to > > start my Xsession (startx) computer used to prompt with some message about > > sound. I have suppressed it. How do change the system to get that message > > again. > > 1) your hardware (soundcard type - is it supported?) > 2) if it is supported, did you compile the module in the kernel? > 3) if it is not not compiled in the kernel, did you load the module? > > For question number 3, the magic keyword is kldload (see its manual page). # kldload snd will generally do what you want (load the correct driver). > I omitted to ask whether the card works (if you have a chance, check with > another OS on the same machine). Faulty hardware may not get initialized > properly and will cause the driver to fail. Right. What does 'dmesg' say abount sound cards/chipsets? You could also run 'pciconf -lv' (as root) and see if your card is recognized. Good luck. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/
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