Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 15:26:25 -0500 From: Greg Barniskis <nalists@scls.lib.wi.us> To: joeborg@ieee.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Questions Message-ID: <428A5371.2090208@scls.lib.wi.us> In-Reply-To: <428a4cff.47977b00.141d.ffffd9c3@mx.gmail.com> References: <428a4cff.47977b00.141d.ffffd9c3@mx.gmail.com>
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Joseph Borg wrote: > Hi, > I've got a couple of questions I was hoping someone could help me with: [snip] > - Finally, I've just installed gnome and when it starts up, I get the > following error: No volume control elements and/or devices found. The A8V > Motherboard on which the system is installed has an inbuilt 8.0 sound card. > Is there any way I can test this is working under Freebsd. Provided this is > the case, how can I eliminate the error in gnome? Can't answer your first couple of questions, but I know from solving this for myself over the weekend that this one should just require getting the correct kernel module loaded for your sound card. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html For me, it was as simple as running the sound driver meta loader kldload snd_driver to see if my card would fly at all, and then looking at dmesg to see that the meta loader was finding device pcm0 and from there figuring out which sound module I needed to load from /boot/loader.conf with my_modname_load="YES" (can't remember the actual module name I used) Then boot, and Gnome starts up happy (just like me every time I boot FreeBSD ;-). -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) <gregb at scls.lib.wi.us>, (608) 266-6348
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