Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 18:49:37 -0500 From: Trey Sizemore <trey@fastmail.fm> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: T Kellers <kellers@njit.edu> Subject: Re: Confused about sound servers Message-ID: <3FF60391.1090803@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <200401021542.00741.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> References: <3FF5CB40.5020603@fastmail.fm> <200401021506.30739.kellers@njit.edu> <200401021542.00741.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com>
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Eric F Crist wrote: >On Friday 02 January 2004 02:06 pm, T Kellers wrote: > > >>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. >> >> > >I find I only add the device pcm line to my kernel and everything works fine. >Gnome, KDE, console beeps. Everything works and I don't usually worry about >the sound servers. When you install one of the window managers, as long as >you install the multimedia package, the correct sound server gets installed >too. This has been working for me for about 5 years now. > >HTH > > > Update here...I have removed the entries in /boot/loader.conf and now only have the kernel compiled with my 'device PCM' entry. 'dmesg | grep pcm' shows my soundcard entry and cat /dev/sndstat shows it as well. I have rebooted after taking the entries out of loader.conf. When I try something like % play KDE_Beep_Ahem.wav I get: play: /dev/dsp: Operation not supported by device What might be causing this that I could look into? Thanks.
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