Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 04:47:37 -0800 From: J <> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: My lack of a "sound' understanding Message-ID: <200310300447.38093.J <>>
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Okay, I am a complete noob, so have patience. I don't know all the proper nomenclature as of yet. I installed, then reinstalled and re-reinstalled 5.1 on a dell gx1 with the crystal sound chip with little difficulty up until I went to do the file sharing experience with Samba and the sound thing. For now I just want to get this sound problem understood. Now according to the manual in order to load the sound device I can either kldload or configure a kernal. I understand this. What I don't understand are two things at least, when I kldload, exactly where do I need to be to do this? In what directory? I mean, when I bring up a terminal and punch in kldload snd,or snd0 it says "can't load snd, no such file or directory". I did install the src/sys files. I understand that 5.x is somewhat different than the other distros which I interpret to mean that this should be somewhat friendlier. The other thing I seem to get conflicting messages about is if I can actually just add the "device pcm" bsd/docs 16.2 to the existing kernal or do I have to totally rebuild it? Or is this one in the same? I don't mind reading the manual, it just seems as if I am overlooking something essential. So maybe if you can help me find the basics I am missing? Thanks
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