From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 17 21:42:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA05934 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 21:42:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts15-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA05927 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 21:42:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA05739; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 21:41:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 21:41:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: flame@access.kuwait.net cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sound In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 18 Sep 1997 flame@access.kuwait.net wrote: > I have configured the kernel (2.2.1) for sounds blaster. i choosed > deviced snd0, sb0, sbmidi0, sbvx0 (<-not sure about this name) and > recomplied It should be sbvxi0 (for SB 16 (XVI is roman for 16)). > i used MAKEDEV to make snd0 but was not able to make sb0, sbmidi0 or > sbvx0 as i get not such device error msg. > > i noticed there is audio and audio0 in /dev > > ii have some *.au files and tried cat .au > /dev/audio > > but got error msg: soundcard error, kernel not configured for sounds! Did you copy the compiled kernel in to /? What does ``cat /dev/sndstat'' report? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo