Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 02:51:49 UT From: "leegold" <leegold@fastmail.fm> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can not get sound card to work - I need help Message-ID: <20021012025149.8485F1AEC2DE@server5.fastmail.fm>
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On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 23:27:51 -0600, "RichardH" <richardh@wsonline.net> said: > At 11:23 PM 10/10/2002, Brian Li wrote: > >Have you tried to load the sound device modules instead? I used SB16 for my > >Sound Blaster sound card, I think AWE64 sound work too. > >Login as root What version of FreeBsd do I need to do this? Were is documentation on this - didn't see anything like what you suggest in the Handbook. I have had at least 15 different suggestions on how to get sound, none worked, many have been out of date, so - if what you're saying is the correct way to implement - then were are the FBSD docs on this? An extremely frustrating situation. Documentation makes or breaks my experience w/an OS, this should be a much-much easier time. Shouldn't the use of modules be "front page news"? FreeBSD Unleashed has almost nothing on modules and it's a recent book AND The Handbook doesn't mention modules regarding sound cards. Nobody on the hardware list mentioned SB16 or AWE64 modules. Sites are still up giving me "valuable" knowledge for FBsd 3.x, I tried a kernel config for 3.x and my 4.4 rejected it completely, but it's up there in lights on the web - world class documentation. Why shouldn't I give up, given the state of things ihmo I observed. Nobody wants to do documentation I know. If I knew more about C and unix internals I'd volunteer and the last thing I'd probably want to do is documentation too. > >#cd /modules > >#kldload snd_sb16.ko > > > >then install mpg123 and try to play a mp3 file to check whether it works. > >Good luck. > > > > > > > > > No need to install mpg123, just type mixer after mod is loaded, if mixer > runs sound is loaded. > > > > -- http://fastmail.fm/ - Consolidate POP email and Hotmail in one place To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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