From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 19 7: 1:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B591537B51E for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2000 07:01:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) Received: from [208.47.188.243] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id qa316410 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2000 10:01:28 -0500 From: Walter Brameld To: Jonathan , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sound blaster Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 09:58:20 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00031910012900.02460@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Jonathan wrote: > Ok i couldnt get my ESS working so i bought a sound blaster 16.. > and i can get the kernel to dectect it > > npx0 on motherboard > npx0: INT 16 interface > sb0 at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 on isa > snd0: > sbxvi0 at drq 5 on isa > snd0: > sbmidi0 at 0x330 on isa > snd0: > changing root device to wd0s1a > > BUT when i go to a mp3 program it says "cant open audio device" i thought > it was that i have to ./MAKEDEV snd0 but when i do that it still doesnt > work...but it also doesnt disply the snd0 under /dev/ any ideas? > > J@ MAKEDEV snd0 will not make a device snd0. What it does is make links for devices such as mixer -> mixer0, dsp -> dsp0, etc. What is the output of the command "cat /dev/sndstat"? -- Walter Brameld Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? BSD: Are you guys coming, or what? Walter: Where the hell am I? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message