From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 30 08:05:35 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 DD94316A4CF for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 08:05:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CC8343FA3 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 08:05:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:08:14 -0600 Message-ID: <3FA136B1.9010203@daleco.biz> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:05:05 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030920 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org References: <200310300447.38093.J <>> In-Reply-To: <>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Oct 2003 16:08:15.0109 (UTC) FILETIME=[064DE350:01C39F00] 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 16:05:36 -0000 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? 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 > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > Just out of curiousity, why no 'reply-to'? Bit of a 'noob' myself on this one. I chose the new kernel option. You must rebuild the kernel if you intend to go the "device pcm" route. I read the docs and then did the following on my 5.1R box 6 weeks ago. quid pro quo: I've an onboard "AC97" chip, and I've run 'make buildworld' previously from a full /usr/src, so the entire world is compiled in /usr/obj. 1. Added "device pcm" to /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC. 2. Ran "make buildkernel". 3. Ran "make installkernel". 4. Rebooted. As for kldload, I've not done that. Have a look at kldload(8) and related manpages. Also, FWIW, the sound device in 5.1 is /dev/dsp, not /dev/snd. Most of the possibilities for kldload(8) are in /boot/defaults/loader.conf --- look at the section headed by "Sound Modules"... there's a "snd_driver_load" that loads all sound mods, might be the quickest way... HTH, Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.