From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 26 23:51:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (mta01-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E65A37B719 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 23:51:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from james-list@ntlworld.com) Received: from eclipse.bloodflowers.org ([62.253.132.115]) by mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with SMTP id <20010227075126.XRDD283.mta01-svc.ntlworld.com@eclipse.bloodflowers.org> for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 07:51:26 +0000 Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 07:53:47 +0000 From: James Greenhalgh To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sound card configuration fails in 4.0 RELEASE Message-Id: <20010227075347.757e2de2.james-list@ntlworld.com> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.4.61 (GTK+ 1.2.8; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE; i386) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 11:59:26 -0500 (EST) Wyatt Banks wrote: > I installed an AWE64 PnP ISA card in my computer. My computer is running > Windows 95 and FreeBSD 4.0 Release. I read the handbook which said to > add: > device pcm > devce sbc > > to my kernel. I did, and recompiled my kernel, rebooted my machine, etc > (yeah, I know I sound stupid putting all this redundant garbage in, but > every time I write this list people ask those stupid questions). > > Anyway, the handbook says the next step is to: > cat /dev/sndstat > amd it should tell me it works fine. It tells me: > device not configured. Firstly - you didn't spell it 'devce' in the config file too did you? ;-) Secondly, try using dmesg, to see if your sound card was spotted at boot. I've got the same card and the same kernel options, and I get: sbc0: at port 0x220-0x22f,0x330-0x331,0x388-0x38b irq 5 drq 1,5 on isa0 pcm0: on sbc0 Assuming you see the above in the output, then you want to cd to /dev and: ./MAKEDEV snd0 (snd should do, snd0 will definitely work) And things should work, almost. There seems to be a nasty bug in the new sound drivers with Awe64 (and possibly other) cards - that means you can't control the igain and ogain of your card with the mixer, and nobody seems to be able to help. It means running your speakers/amp quite high, and jacking up the pcm and master volume controls to get things at a decent volume :-( james To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message