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thanks that sorted it 
another quick one 

how do you access the cdrom?
tried cd /mnt/cdrom as would do in linux

arden  

On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 15:59, Kent Stewart wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 May 2004 07:46 am, arden wrote:
> > hi all
> >
> > another newbie question I'm afraid when i boot my machine the sound
> > driver module is not loading and have to type kldload snd_drivers
> > every time did i miss something on install?
> 
> You have to add something like
> snd_driver_load="YES"
> to /boot/loader.conf for it to be run everytime you boot.
> 
> >
> > is it time to get a crash course in kernel compiling?
> >
> 
> That is what I did. I added "options pcm" to my kernel config file, 
> which requires building a kernel, but why do it if the loader.conf 
> addition works :).
> 
> Kent