From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 1 16:42:00 2005 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 2CBD716A4CE for ; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 16:42:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wmail.atlantic.net (wmail.atlantic.net [209.208.112.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8D57843D55 for ; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 16:41:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from myfreebsd@cox.net) Received: (qmail 20949 invoked by uid 89); 1 Apr 2005 16:41:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.4.11?) (dwassman@davismonk.com@67.132.67.49) by wmail.atlantic.net with SMTP; 1 Apr 2005 16:41:58 -0000 Message-ID: <424D7B56.5020000@cox.net> Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 11:48:22 -0500 From: David Wassman User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: RE: Error using sound with KDE 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: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 16:42:00 -0000 >I am having a problem with my SoundBlaster Audigy sound card with KDE. >Before I fired up X, i did this: >kldload snd_emu10k1 >sysctl hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=4 >sysctl hw.snd.maxautovchans=4 > >then I did a startx, and KDE loaded, and durring the initial splash screen, >I heard sound after it initialized peripherals. But after that, I couldnt >get it to work. I tried using XMMS with OSS and eSound, and i tried kaboodle >and nautan, all of them had no sound. > >So my questions are: Does FreeBSD 5.3 fully support the SB Audigy sound >chip? If so, do I need to configure something in KDE to get the sound back? > >Thanks > >S > I had the same problem on a Linux and a FreeBSD machine a while back. Try opening the arts controller under multimedia. It will show several (20+) volume bars (General, CD, Phone, etc.). How I fixed this is, I played a CD in KsCD(?) so I could watch the track count and started to move each bar up till I heard sound. On my system it was ISO2000something?. Try that and see if it works. If KDE had sound at startup but not latter it is most like with the volume selection as described. David