From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 16 9:47:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from donkeykong.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (donkeykong.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60BD637B4C5 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 09:47:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from qbert.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (smtp@qbert.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.151]) by donkeykong.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/4.3-mailhub) with ESMTP id MAA20932; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 12:47:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (timcm@localhost) by qbert.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/5.1-client) with ESMTP id MAA02747; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 12:47:38 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 12:47:37 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen X-Sender: timcm@qbert.gpcc.itd.umich.edu To: wibble Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sound woes (ducks for flame) In-Reply-To: <3A1379A6.1BED1827@obsidian.co.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Have you considered that maybe your sound card is not supported? There aren't THAT many cards that are. I have a Via sound chipset on my motherboard (new support in 4.2RC1 but I still just get white noise with pcm). So I went to Best Buy and bought a $19 ISA sound card that said it supported SB,SB pro and windows sound system standards. I recompiled my kernel with pcm and had sound right away for xmms. So if you're really frustrated, buy a new card or check the HARDWARE.TXT files to see if your card is supported. Or try to use a bridge driver (I've no idea how). At least make sure you've upgraded to 4.1.1 at least. Maybe wait a few days for 4.2-release. Good luck, Tim ----------------------------------------------- "A government big enough to give you everything you want, is a government big enough to take from you everything you have." -Gerald Ford ----------------------------------------------- On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, wibble wrote: > Hello all... > > Okay.. I've searched the archives and read almost every post on sound, > I've Man'd snd, pcm and sbc. I've looked in the handbook. I've > recompiled my kernel about eight times on a VERY VERY (let me stress > this) -=*****VERY*****=- slow machine and I'm out of patience :) > > So can ANYONE PLEASE help me out. The card does work - I've booted off > a dos disk and run the Creative Diagnose thing. The sound plays. The > card is not plug and play but is software settable. I went for the > defaults - IRQ 5 LowDMA 1 HighDMA 5 port 220. > > So now what do I put into the kernel to make this puppy play nice? > > PCM doesn't work. Niether does PCM0 at? blah blah..... I've tried with > the sb bridging driver. So now, what in you professional opinions, would > work best? > > Frustrated regards > warren > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message