Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 22:57:07 -0600 From: RichardH <richardh@wsonline.net> To: "leegold" <leegold@fastmail.fm>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can not get sound card to work - I give up. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20021010223824.027532f8@mail.richardh.wsonline.net> In-Reply-To: <20021011035529.1AC2B1AEC1F3@server5.fastmail.fm>
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At 09:55 PM 10/10/2002, leegold wrote: >On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 02:22:43 +0000, "Weston M. Price" ><wmprice@direcway.com> said: > > Ok, what have you done so far? I assume that if you have read the > > handbook you > > have made the necessary changes to your customized kernel file, rebuild > > the > > kernel and installed the new kernel. What sort of message are you getting > > from the output of dmesg? > >Thanks, I give up. I'm defeated. >I've tried the hardware group, this group and the newsgroup >several hundred dollars worth of books and many hours - no luck. >If there was phone support I'd try that too and gladly pay for it. >But I guess I can't go any further w/it. No sound. >Goodbye FreeBSD I'll try another OS - I am defeated. > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Weston > > > > > > > > On Thursday 10 October 2002 02:27 am, leegold wrote: > > > I can not get my AWE64 sound card to work. > > > I have asked on FreeBSD-hardware and on the misc newsgroup, > > > I read the handbook and looked in LINT. > > > I have tried everything suggested - but no sound. > > > > > > Would someone agree to help me? - I have no where else to > > > turn for help. Please e-mail me : leegold@fastmail.fm > > > Don't give up yet. You may just be able to type this from root: kldload snd_sb16 then just type mixer, if you get a mixer it is working, then just put this into /boot/loader.conf snd_sb16_load="YES" here are some links, the sound card does work. http://www.freebsddiary.org/sound.php http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/151/1999/3/0/1442394/ http://www.opennet.ru/base/sys/bsdpnp.txt.html (this is in Russian so you need to run it in a translator) http://www-es.fernuni-hagen.de/~jfh/FreeBSD_Documentation/node3.html (this may be all you need) http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/archive/1998/freebsd-multimedia/19980222.freebsd-multimedia.html (whole thread from AWE64 probs in FBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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