From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 2 14:21:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from picusnet.com (mail.picusnet.com [207.7.90.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F240637B705 for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 14:21:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wdf@picusnet.com) Received: from picusnet.com [38.38.130.63] by picusnet.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-5.05) id A4B419FB0152; Tue, 02 May 2000 17:12:20 -0400 Message-ID: <390F46E3.8228EE1C@picusnet.com> Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 17:21:39 -0400 From: William Freeman X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tom@computersurplusoutlet.com Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sound References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tom wrote: > > i just installed freebsd and am trying to get my sound card working. i have > a soundblaster pci 128, so i looked through the freebsd.org website and > other places on the internet and they said something about the mixer and > i've seen things about kernel configuration. the problem is /dev/mixer > doesn't exist on my system and i don't understand much of this since i'm > very new to unix. so i guess my question is, is there any in-depth > documentation on how to setup a sound card? > > -tom > > please reply to totality@lvcm.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Build a new kernel with the line : device pcm0 someplace in it. and then install it, and then when you reboot go to /dev/ and do a ./MAKEDEV snd0 -- William D. Freeman (wfreeman@picusnet.com) http://memebers.xoom.com/EvilGNU -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GG d- s+:+ a--- C++ UB+++ P+ L- E--- W++ N-- o-- K- w--- O---- M-- V-- PS--- PE+++ Y- PGP---- t+++ 5-- X+++ R* tv++ b+ DI++++ D---- G- e-- h! r++ !y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message