From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 28 23:23:06 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB72B37B401 for ; Sat, 28 Jun 2003 23:23:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from oe-mp1.bizmailsrvcs.net (oe-mp1pub.managedmail.com [206.46.164.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1713943FB1 for ; Sat, 28 Jun 2003 23:23:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael@realestatesllc.com) Received: from realestatesllc.com ([66.14.152.32]) by oe-mp1.bizmailsrvcs.netESMTP <20030629062304.TZQY27496.oe-mp1.bizmailsrvcs.net@realestatesllc.com>; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 01:23:04 -0500 Message-ID: <3EFE85E0.9020108@realestatesllc.com> Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 23:23:28 -0700 From: Michael Organization: Real Estate Solutions LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030620 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael References: <3EFE645B.7000500@realestatesllc.com> In-Reply-To: <3EFE645B.7000500@realestatesllc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pcm isn't working using 4.8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 06:23:07 -0000 OK, I figured it out guys/gals so no one needs to respond to my request. For some reason the symbolics didn't get connected when building 4.8. I'm not sure exactly why this is occuring with 4.8 (a bug maybe?), but suffice it to say, all that was needed was to: #cd /dev #sh MAKEDEV snd0 All is well now. Thanks again, Michael Michael wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Is there anyone here on this list that can tell me what I need to do to > get pcm sound working using 4.8 Release? > > This use to work properly on 4.7 Release but for some unknown reason (at > least to me anyway) upon building 4.8, pcm sound is no longer working. > > I've built a custom kernel and added device pcm, which has always > provided me sound for KDE. > > I have no sound whatsoever using KDE windows manager with 4.8 however. > I take that back, I have one thing that works (I can't tell you why > though) KsCD seems to know how to allow sound through through my > speakers when playing a music CD, beyond that, sound is non existant. > > Here is my setup: > > Dell Precision 530 2.2 Ghz > 1 Gig of RAM > No sound card. (only the built in sound on the motherboard) > > I get the following message when logging into KDE which usually has > disappeared after building a new kernel with 'device pcm' enabled. > > "Sound Server informational message: > > Error while initializing the sound driver: > > device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Device busy) > > The sound server will continue, using the null output device." > > Can anyone please tell me how to correct this problem? > > If you can, please send me a mail directly if you know what's causing > this or how I can correct it. I'm not a member of this list, so I'd > greatly appreciate it. My e-mail is michael@realestatesllc.com > > Thanks a lot, > -- Michael Oregon Real Estate Solutions LLC http://www.realestatesllc.com/ Need To Sell A Home Call: 503-345-WINN (9466) Need To Buy or Rent To Own A Home Call: 503-345-WINS (9467)