From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 24 14:31:57 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 018DC16A41F for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:31:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 954C543D53 for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:31:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i28so669601nzi for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 07:31:54 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=SyC5Zounz/5S6aww5IPu1Gsb29xM8EczCP9zSMEa296Un47Tq2Zj5+D7YBkG+xKO2m2fryFzARLbmJogu7Jhv+6ewyjcWU+/8pYpYjDos6mVfO//N/YOD9GY94uY0/Z+q22iJkw28bQ8X7Oxxzzlu8FDRj+ifUeGzlIo8lLnCfk= Received: by 10.36.74.10 with SMTP id w10mr6032845nza; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 07:31:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.37.20.34 with HTTP; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 07:31:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 18:31:54 +0400 From: "Andrew P." To: "Nick J. Date" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <014601c5d8a5$6046e6f0$02fea8c0@nickdate> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Open Sound System on FreeBSD 6 RC1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:31:57 -0000 On 10/24/05, Andrew P. wrote: > On 10/24/05, Nick J. Date wrote: > > Hiya! > > > > I've just "upgraded" my FreeBSD installation from 5.4-RELEASE to > > 6.0-RC1. With 5.4 I learnt that my sound card (SoundBlaster Live! > > 24-bit) wasn't supported by the drivers that come with FreeBSD, so I wa= s > > using the free version of the Open Sound System (www.opensound.com) > > drivers. > > > > On installing 6.0-RC1, I didn't want to take any chances so I downloade= d > > the OSS drivers again (selecting 6.0-RC1 as my operating system this > > time). The installation and sound tests completed fine and I could hear > > music being played. However, although the driver now loads on startup, > > it doesn't load any sort of mixer support and the device /dev/mixer > > doesn't exist. Even attempting to load OSS's own mixer software reports > > that /dev/mixer is non-existant. A re-install doesn't help and I can't > > find any option in the set up program that might make the mixer work. > > > > Has anyone else had a similar problem, and if so does anyone know of a > > solution? > > > > Anyway, if anyone could give me a hand or point me in the right > > direction it would be highly appreciated. > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Nick. > > > > -- > > Nick Date > > Bath, England, UK > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd= .org" > > > > http://www.4front-tech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3D560 > Actually, apart from editing devfs.conf as per my advice in the topic, I've got a startup script, /root/oss.sh, containing these: #!/bin/sh /usr/local/lib/oss/bin/soundon /etc/rc.d/devfs restart and a line in /etc/crontab: @reboot root sleep 30 && /root/oss.sh I am thinking about writing a port, but still only thinking.