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Date:      Sun, 17 Dec 2000 19:42:27 -0800
From:      "David Schultz" <vvortex1@home.com>
To:        "Booo Bo" <bradley_watts@hotmail.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <bwatts@corp.attcanada.ca>
Subject:   Re: Configuring Sound With Sound Blaster Live Card onBSD 4.2
Message-ID:  <002301c068a4$8b1af9a0$0100a8c0@mshome.net>
References:  <F41VVfdY6hlHK91rGGX0000170c@hotmail.com>

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According to the directions, if sndstat shows pcm0, you need to MAKEDEV
snd0, but not snd1. MAKEDEV snd0 again and you should be fine. I screwed
that one up, too ;)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Booo Bo" <bradley_watts@hotmail.com>
To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; <bwatts@corp.attcanada.ca>
Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2000 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: Configuring Sound With Sound Blaster Live Card onBSD 4.2


> Hi There,
>
> I'm hoping soneone can help me with sound card configuration:
>
> (1)
>
> I recently recompiled my Kernel, after having adding the following 2
> devices, as I have a Sound Blaster Live MP3+ Card (below):
>
> device sbc
> device pcm
>
> (2)
>
> I checked to see that the driver was successfully installed (below):
>
> bash# cat /dev/sndstat
> FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Dec 17 2000 17:18:12
> Installed devices:
> pcm0: <Creative EMU10K1> at io 0x78a0 irq 5 (4p/3r channels duplex)
>
>
> (3)
>
> I created the following 2 device nodes (below):
>
> bash# cd /dev
> bash# sh MAKEDEV snd0
> bash#
> bash# sh MAKEDEV snd1
> bash#
>
> Please Note* I did 'not' receive any errors when createing the two device
> nodes (above). The handbook says it should return pcm0 and pcm1, this did
> not happen.
>
> This created the following under /dev:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  6 Dec 17 17:52 audio -> audio1
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  4 Dec 17 17:52 dsp -> dsp1
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  5 Dec 17 17:52 dspW -> dspW1
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  6 Dec 17 17:52 mixer -> mixer1
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  6 Dec 17 17:52 music -> music1
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  10 Dec 17 17:52 sequencer -> sequencer1
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  4 Dec 17 17:52 pss -> pss1
>
> (4)
>
> I then installed XMMS 1.2.4 and attempted to play an mp3. I attempted to
use
> the following devices as the output plugin and was given the following
> errors each time:
>
> ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): Device
> not configured
>
> ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/audio):
Device
> not configured
>
> ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dspW): Device
> not configured
>
> ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/mixer):
Device
> not configured
>
> ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/music):
Device
> not configured
>
> ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/sequencer):
> Device not configured
>
> ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/pss): Device
> not configured
>
> ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/pss): Device
> not configured
>
> ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): Device
> not configured
>
> ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/audio):
Device
> not configured
>
> ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dspW): Device
> not configured
>
> ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/mixer):
Device
> not configured
>
> ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/music):
Device
> not configured
>
> ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/sequencer):
> Device not configured
>
> ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/pss): Device
> not configured
>
> (5)
>
> HELP?? Did I install the correct devices in my kernel (pcm AND sbc)?? I
also
> tried all the same steps above with the following other two devices
compiled
> in my kernel (pcm AND device sbc0 at isa? port0x220 irq 5 drq 1 flags
0x15).
> However, isn't my card a PnP ISA card??
>
> HELP, what can I do??  :-(
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