Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 10:50:49 -0500 (CDT) From: David Vondrasek <david@stumbleinn.dyn.ml.org> To: Ryan Thompson <listaccount@home.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ESD/Sound install/ESound help needed! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980907104936.2988C-100000@stumbleinn.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <35F38709.647DD3DA@home.com>
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On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Ryan Thompson wrote: > David Vondrasek wrote: > > > Hi everyone.. > > > I am doing this so that I can use the Esound library within X, (with the > > > Enlightenment 0.14 window manager). Esound is built into Enlightenment, > > > but requires the Esound daemon, "esd" to be running. Esd requires the > > > device /dev/dsp be configured, which it ISN'T. Both ESound and > > > Enlightenment came straight from the FreeBSD packages installer. > > > > I'd like to know how you got esound to compile and work. It coughed > > everytime I tryed to install. None of the sound or CD programs > > will work for me. > > > > David L. Vondrasek > > dlv@watertower.com > > Hi David... By "compile" I'm assuming you're trying to build the ESound > package from source... I did not have to do that. If you are indeed > running FreeBSD (I *hope* you are, posting in FreeBSD-Questions :), it's > available pre-compiled in the FreeBSD packages compilation. If you have > FTP access and a working network connection (PPP or LAN) run > /stand/sysinstall as root. Go to the post-install config menu, and with > FTP as your media type, go to the packages menu. As I don't remember > which category it's under, just get at it from the "All" menu. The name > DOES start with ESound... Check it off and let the installer take care > of the rest. If all goes well, esound will be downloaded, installed and > configured by the time you exit the program :-) Ofcourse I'm running FreeBSD :) , I'm just use to using the ports collections :) I'll gibe the sysinstall route a shot ! Thanks ! David L. Vondrasek dlv@watertower.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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