Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 17:58:43 -0500 From: "Kevin McCormick" <kmccorm1@stevens-tech.edu> To: <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Sound Woes, and more! Message-ID: <NJEILFFGFACAOBDNPELNKEEFCAAA.kmccorm1@stevens-tech.edu> In-Reply-To: <1014037622.956.32.camel@aurvandil.infinitebubble.com>
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Hello, I am sadly a newbie and I have the same problem as well. I don't have a SoundBlaster Live!, but an ESS Allegro/2E. From what I can read the hardware is supported, but something isn't working quite right. I agree that it seems like a missing step in the Handbook. Assuming that you did the same thing as me, you: 1. Added 'device pcm' to kernel and compiled 2. makedev for the sound 3. Act confused when nothing works I understand that this is an issue for the **questions list** to answer, so I don't expect anyone on the list to answer, but I think that if this is an issue with the handbook, I think it's important for newbies to have a reliable source with directions on how to set up sound. Or, are there bigger items that myself or other newbies are totally missing with this issue? I can't use any OS that I can't play my music on! :-) By the way, while I'm here, I should share my FreeBSD experience. I had a nice time installing 4.4-REL and 4.5-REL and it was pleasantly simple, considering I have only had Windows and MacOS experience prior to using FreeBSD. However, I do feel a bit disoriented when using FreeBSD mainly because of the fundamental ideas of UNIX (file system structure, the X windowing system, compiling source code, multi-user/networking, etc.). It will only be a matter of time for me... If there is anything that I could contribute in terms of ideas, it would be that the install program optionally have a "newbie mode" - a more tutorial-like interface rather than the currently objective sysinstall. Nonetheless it is a nice tool. Some of my friends who use linux thought that it was "neat". Also, some more desktop-oriented distrobution sets couldn't hurt along with the current ones (like User, Developer, X-User, etc.). It would be neat to see more pre-fab ones like "Home Office" with X, a web browser, a word processor, and a spreadsheet with menus and launchers all set up. Another example could be "Multimedia" with X, some editing tools, some P2P applications, and a tutorial (forbid I use the word 'wizard' hehe) on how to had sound support to the kernel. I don't really think that this would take away from the "hard-core" nature of FreeBSD since all of the traditional options would still be there. This would enable many more users to try FreeBSD (it's hard enough to convince lots of people to try new things; now try telling them that after they install FreeBSD that they need to spend a lot of time configuring and installing other stuff; lots of people are surprisingly accepting of default settings, like using IE in Windows). Well, those are my thoughts. Regards, Kevin McCormick kmccorm1@stevens-tech.edu -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jason Taylor Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 8:07 AM To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Sound Woes I've a SoundBlaster Live. I've followed the directions in the Handbook as far as I understand them. I've actually tried su; cd /dev; sh MAKEDEV snd0 at least twice. I get no response when trying to play wav's from the Sound Events tab in the Gnome Control Center. When I try mpg123 some.mp3, I get: Can't open /dev/dsp! Links are: /dev/dsp -> /dev/dsp0 -> /dev/dsp0.0 Output from dmesg | grep pcm: pcm0:<Creative EMU10K1> port 0x2020-0x203f irq 10 at device 14.0 on pci0 (repeated 3 more times) Output from cat /dev/sndstat: pcm0:<Creative EMU10k1> at io 0x2020 irq 10 (4p/1r/0v channels duplex) I disabled PNP in the BIOS (learned that one when trying to get the NIC to work). I've also disabled both serial ports because I don't really need them and one of them was also using irq 10. What's should I try next? -tia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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