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To: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
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Subject: Re: Gnome 1.4 and FreeBSD 4.3 / Soundproblem under FreeBSD 4.3 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:46:32 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 11:48:38 -0700
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:46:32 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> 
> That's what it should do.
> 
> ls /dev/snd*
> 
> Should return a sndstat device, but /dev/audio* and /dev/dsp* are the main
> players.  If audio is a problem, check the mixer(8) settings.
> 

I have a similar system and have never been able to get the sound to
work right. Oddly, realplayer works fine! But I can't play a wav and
Gnome is silent.

I did find a message in the archives that said that this could be
fixed by booting Windows and then re-booting FreeBSD, but I don't have
Windows available, so I have never been able to try it.

The message said that once Windows had been started that the audio
would work until the system lost power. Then you need to boot Windows
again.

Maybe this is not the problem, but, if you can boot Windows, it might
fix the problem.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634

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