From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 16 12:36: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po3.wam.umd.edu (po3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FE2537B479 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 12:36:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from rac4.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:root@rac4.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.144]) by po3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA21249; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 15:35:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from rac4.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA22199; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 15:35:30 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA22195; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 15:35:30 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: rac4.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 15:35:30 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Tim McMillen Cc: wibble , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sound woes (ducks for flame) In-Reply-To: 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 I don't recall seeing what kind of card this guy is using; that would be helpful info. ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Tim McMillen wrote: > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message