Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 16:36:32 -0500 From: Drew Sanford <drew@planetwe.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Sound on Dell inspiron Message-ID: <00052516442100.00324@dorado.planetwe.com>
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Hi, I have FreeBSD 4.0 (from the CD) on a Dell Inspiron laptop. I'm running the KDE desktop, and was wondering how to fix an error with the mixer. When trying to start the mixer I get the following error: kmix: could not open mixer. Perhaps you have no permission to access the mixer device. Login as root and do a 'chmod a+rw /dev/mixer*' to allow the access. Well, I can't find /dev/mixer* ect...I am assuming that since I never actually did it, that sound on this laptop is not configured. I'm familiar with linux, and alot of stuff in BSD looks "the same, only different", so I'm assuming I'm going to have to configure the sound. My questions are these: Is the configuration process for sound on FreeBSD and Linux basicly the same, or is this one of the things thats different? Has anyone configured sound on one of these beasts before, and can they provide some clues? I'm not sure what sort of card is in this laptop either (I suppose I could boot NT and look, but I'd really rather not.) TIA for any help. -- Drew Sanford Systems Administrator Planetwe.com Email: drew@planetwe.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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