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From: "Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]" <Danovitsch@Vitsch.net>
To: Frederick Thomas <nikita_the_jew@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 18:59:37 +0100
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Subject: Re: freebsd 5.1 and devfs
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On Tuesday 13 January 2004 18:51, Frederick Thomas wrote:
> shalom,
>       I read the manpage on devfs and can't make heads or tails of it. =
I've
> a cs4236 onboard pnp sound card that took 2 months to finally get runni=
ng
> and I'm gonna wait that long this time. My box is a dell optiplex gx1 a=
nd
> using old school rules catted dmesg.boot and found pcm0<my card> but wh=
en I
> tried to run sh MAKEDEV snd0 I find that makedev is now deprecated. ple=
ase
> assist in my using devfs to make device nodes please reply to address
> above. Thanks
If the card is detected as pcm0 and devfs is running, you should have ent=
ries =09=09=09=09=09=09
for the device in /dev named dsp*

"cat /dev/sndstat" should also list the device.

good luck,
Daan