Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 15:06:30 -0500 From: T Kellers <kellers@njit.edu> To: Trey Sizemore <trey@fastmail.fm>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Confused about sound servers Message-ID: <200401021506.30739.kellers@njit.edu> In-Reply-To: <3FF5CB40.5020603@fastmail.fm> References: <3FF5CB40.5020603@fastmail.fm>
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Don't use both device pcm and the .ko modules. The sound won't work at all or, if it does, not properly. You may not even have any keyboard beeps (^G's) if both are loaded. Get rid of the device pcm and just load the modules. KDE comes with artsd as it's sound server; some people love it, some people hate it and some people (like me) both love and hate it :) Make sure you are loading the correct .ko file for your card, I'm not sure that snd_emu10k.ko is the correct one, but I could be wrong. Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT On Friday 02 January 2004 02:49 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: > I run KDE, Gnome, and occasionally IceWM (although I haven't yet > installed this on my FreeBSD machine). Coming from a linux background, > I'm a little confused about sound servers. I have a SoundBlaster Live > Value PCI card on my machine running 5.2-CURRENT. > > I have compiled my kernel with 'device PCM' and in my /boot/loader.conf > I have put > > snd_pcm_load="YES" > snd_emu10k1_load="YES" > > What sound server(s) is/are recommended to install. I know that Gnome > typically uses ess, and KDE can use arts. Should both of these be > installed to have sound in these environments? How about others such as > Xfce and IceWM? > > I want to enable system sounds as well as sound for XMMS and other > programs. The card is recognized and showing up in dmesg. > > I've read in another post that I don't need to run > > # sh MAKEDEV snd0 > > in the /dev directory with FreeBSD 5.X series, is this true. > > Right now I have no sound. > > Thanks. > _______________________________________________ > 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"
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