From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 30 07:52:55 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 EC61816A4CE for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 07:52:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from rdsnet.ro (smtp.rdsnet.ro [62.231.74.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25CB843FE0 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 07:52:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from itetcu@apropo.ro) Received: (qmail 23982 invoked from network); 30 Oct 2003 15:52:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO buh.cameradicommercio.ro) (81.196.25.19) by mail.rdsnet.ro with SMTP; 30 Oct 2003 15:52:51 -0000 Received: from buh.cameradicommercio.ro (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by buh.cameradicommercio.ro (Postfix) with SMTP id 720BD13 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 17:52:51 +0200 (EET) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 17:52:50 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: J <> Message-Id: <20031030175250.483f5cf6.itetcu@apropo.ro> In-Reply-To: <200310300447.38093.J<>> References: <200310300447.38093.J<>> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.6claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 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 15:52:56 -0000 On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 04:47:37 -0800 J <> wrote: > 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? Note: I don't no your card, so I might not guessed the right driver but the theory ins Ok. If you want to happen at each boot put something like snd_csa_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf > 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 snd_pcm perhaps ? see man pcm and man csa. -- IOnut FreeBSD unregistered ;) user