From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 26 20:18:52 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94D7B16A4CE for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:18:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from bella.lunarpages.com (bella.lunarpages.com [216.193.194.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78B2643D4C for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:18:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from siavash@edrisi.com) Received: from cpanel by bella.lunarpages.com with local (Exim 4.43) id 1CMXLK-0003kR-H3 for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:50:54 -0700 Received: from 80.108.44.180 ([80.108.44.180]) by login.bella.lunarpages.com (IMP) with HTTP for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:50:54 +0200 Message-ID: <1098820254.417eaa9e77a47@login.bella.lunarpages.com> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:50:54 +0200 From: Siavash EDRISI To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.2 X-Originating-IP: 80.108.44.180 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - bella.lunarpages.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [32001 502] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - edrisi.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Subject: Finding the Right Sound Driver ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:18:52 -0000 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