From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 27 11:14: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3473737C1E2 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 11:13:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA16145; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 13:12:33 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 13:12:32 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: John Klos Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sound configuration? Message-ID: <20000627131232.A12707@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.4i In-Reply-To: ; from "John Klos" on Tue Jun 27 14:00:01 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jun 27), John Klos said: > OK. There's no sound documentation. Please don't RTFM me, or tell me > to see man pcm(4), or so on, as it has no relevant information. > > Anyway, I have several computers with FreeBSD 4, and I've already > recompiled the kernels with pcm support. From dmesg: > > pcm1: at port 0x534-0x537,0x388-0x38b,0x220-0x22f irq 5 > drq 1,0 on isa0 > > So now what? I haven't a clue what devices in /dev need to point to > what, and documentation is not forthcoming. Try searching for it > yourself before accusing me of not trying. cd /dev ; ./MAKEDEV snd1 then use /dev/dsp for your audio in/output. > I am a little upset about this because it is something that should be > somewhat simple, but there is no information anywhere. Should I find > enough information, I would LOVE to make a small page to help out > others. But frankly, as someone who has spent hours looking for some > help, I am disappointed. Welcome to the world of voluntary documentation. :) If you're willing to help, see http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ . -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message