Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 18:31:54 +0400 From: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com> To: "Nick J. Date" <nick.date@ukonline.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Open Sound System on FreeBSD 6 RC1 Message-ID: <cb5206420510240731l1222d822yeb87e30cd46335ae@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <cb5206420510240727i299934djf6c954d5310aaa49@mail.gmail.com> References: <014601c5d8a5$6046e6f0$02fea8c0@nickdate> <cb5206420510240727i299934djf6c954d5310aaa49@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10/24/05, Andrew P. <infofarmer@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/24/05, Nick J. Date <nick.date@ukonline.co.uk> wrote: > > Hiya! > > > > I've just "upgraded" my FreeBSD installation from 5.4-RELEASE to > > 6.0-RC1. With 5.4 I learnt that my sound card (SoundBlaster Live! > > 24-bit) wasn't supported by the drivers that come with FreeBSD, so I wa= s > > using the free version of the Open Sound System (www.opensound.com) > > drivers. > > > > On installing 6.0-RC1, I didn't want to take any chances so I downloade= d > > the OSS drivers again (selecting 6.0-RC1 as my operating system this > > time). The installation and sound tests completed fine and I could hear > > music being played. However, although the driver now loads on startup, > > it doesn't load any sort of mixer support and the device /dev/mixer > > doesn't exist. Even attempting to load OSS's own mixer software reports > > that /dev/mixer is non-existant. A re-install doesn't help and I can't > > find any option in the set up program that might make the mixer work. > > > > Has anyone else had a similar problem, and if so does anyone know of a > > solution? > > > > Anyway, if anyone could give me a hand or point me in the right > > direction it would be highly appreciated. > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Nick. > > > > -- > > Nick Date > > Bath, England, UK > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd= .org" > > > > http://www.4front-tech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3D560 > Actually, apart from editing devfs.conf as per my advice in the topic, I've got a startup script, /root/oss.sh, containing these: #!/bin/sh /usr/local/lib/oss/bin/soundon /etc/rc.d/devfs restart and a line in /etc/crontab: @reboot root sleep 30 && /root/oss.sh I am thinking about writing a port, but still only thinking.
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