From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 30 04:48:21 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3BF516A4CF for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 04:48:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from pimout3-ext.prodigy.net (pimout3-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.63.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9120343FDD for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 04:48:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ) Received: from 192.168.1.100 (adsl-64-175-42-45.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net [64.175.42.45])h9UCmJ5r219232 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 07:48:19 -0500 From: J <> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 04:47:37 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310300447.38093.J <>> Subject: My lack of a "sound' understanding X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 12:48:21 -0000 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