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Date:      Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:20:20 -0200
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br>
To:        Adam Migus <adam@migus.org>
Cc:        toni@stderror.at, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: where is MAKEDEV
Message-ID:  <3E396CE4.2020700@tcoip.com.br>
In-Reply-To: <64020.192.168.4.4.1043794316.squirrel@mail.migus.org>
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Adam Migus wrote:
> <quote who="Toni Schmidbauer">
> 
>>On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 09:14:36PM +0100, FredBriand wrote:
>>
>>>everything seems OK, but my sound card. In the handbook they
>>>say I must use the MAKEDEV script (as in Linux) but I can't
>>>find it on my disk.
>>
>>freebsd 5.0 is using devfs(5). so device inodes are created
>>automatically.
>>
>>for your soundcard be sure to enable pcm(4) in your kernel.
>>
>>for info on compiling a new kernel see the freebsd handbook:
>>
>>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html
>>
> 
> 
> It may be easier to just load the module.  Try adding it to your
> /boot/loader.conf.  For a list of available sound modules try
> grep ^snd /boot/defaults/loader.conf.  If you don't know what
> your card is just type "kldload snd"

It got renamed to snd_driver on current (but not on stable).

> That will load all sound drivers and "dmesg" will show you which
> one actually supports your card.  Once you know, put that one in

Dmesg shows how your card was identified, which is not quite saying 
which driver supports the card.

> your /boot/loader.conf.  If your driver requires pcm, the loader
> will load it as a dependancy.

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