Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:35:13 -0800 From: Steven Davidson <sdn@sprintlabs.com> To: david@metalogik.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sound on Dell Inspiron 8000 Message-ID: <3A6F58A1.93EBBB36@sprintlabs.com> References: <20010124203226.4551.cpmta@c001.snv.cp.net>
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david@metalogik.com wrote: > anyone have sound on a dell i8k working? > > how? > > cheers, > david j harding - david@metalogik.com > metalogik industries > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message No, but I just got sound working on FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE. My computer is a Dell Optiplex GX1 with built-in audio hardware (no sound card added). The effort seemed trivial, and may apply to your machine. Please post your results to the list. This is all I did: I added this line to the end of my devices section of my kernel config file at /sys/i386/conf/MYKERNEL: device pcm I did: cd /dev ./MAKEDEV snd0 rebuild the kernel and reboot. cat sorrydave.au > /dev/audio And it worked. Also of interest, % cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Jan 22 2001 16:21:02 Installed devices: pcm0: <CS423x> at io 0x534 irq 5 drq 1:0 (1p/1r channels duplex) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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