Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:50:54 +0200 From: Siavash EDRISI <siavash@edrisi.com> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Finding the Right Sound Driver ... Message-ID: <1098820254.417eaa9e77a47@login.bella.lunarpages.com>
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Hi! I have been reading the text "Setting Up the Sound Card" at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html in order to find and install the right driver for the sound card in my i386. The hardware is an ESS 1869 PCI. Before I had WinXP installed on this hardware and it reported that the location of the card is: PCI slot 3 (PCI bus 0, device 14, function 0) I did whatever is described in the section 7.2.1 of the manual: 1- I checked the entries in "/boot/defaults/loader.conf". The right line was snd_sbc_load="NO" I imagine this means that the driver is already somewhere on the harddisk! 2- Then I inserted the following line into /boot/loader.conf snd_sbc_load="YES" 3- I booted the system. Right after calling "startx" and entering KDE I got (as usual) the error message that the sound server could not find the file /dev/dsp. As I read in the manual configuring a custom kernel with sound support is just a second method and can be used alternatively. So I am not sure if I really have to do something in the kernel or not, since the first efforts did not help! Could someone please tell me what I still have to do? I would of course be very thankful for more precise advices. Thanks in advance Sia
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