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Date:      Mon, 24 Oct 2005 18:53:33 +0100
From:      "Nick J. Date" <nick.date@ukonline.co.uk>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Open Sound System on FreeBSD 6 RC1
Message-ID:  <000001c5d8c3$daaa3fa0$02fea8c0@nickdate>
In-Reply-To: <cb5206420510240731l1222d822yeb87e30cd46335ae@mail.gmail.com>

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Hi Andrew!

Many thanks! I'm trying that now!

Regards,

Nick.

--
Nick Date
Bath, England, UK

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Andrew P.
> Sent: 24 October 2005 15:32
> To: Nick J. Date
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Open Sound System on FreeBSD 6 RC1
> 
> 
> 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 
> > > was 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 
> > > downloaded 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 _______________________________________________
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> > http://www.4front-tech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=560
> >
> 
> 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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