From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 24 14:29:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailman.sprintlabs.com (mx.sprintlabs.com [208.30.174.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7374337B401 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:28:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by mailman.sprintlabs.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2652.78) id ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:28:51 -0800 Received: from sprintlabs.com (ip199-2-53-135.sprintlabs.com [199.2.53.135]) by mailman.sprintlabs.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2652.78) id CJJQ0KSL; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:28:48 -0800 From: Steven Davidson Reply-To: Steven Davidson To: david@metalogik.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <3A6F58A1.93EBBB36@sprintlabs.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:35:13 -0800 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Sound on Dell Inspiron 8000 References: <20010124203226.4551.cpmta@c001.snv.cp.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG david@metalogik.com wrote: > anyone have sound on a dell i8k working? > > how? > > cheers, > david j harding - david@metalogik.com > metalogik industries > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message No, but I just got sound working on FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE. My computer is a Dell Optiplex GX1 with built-in audio hardware (no sound card added). The effort seemed trivial, and may apply to your machine. Please post your results to the list. This is all I did: I added this line to the end of my devices section of my kernel config file at /sys/i386/conf/MYKERNEL: device pcm I did: cd /dev ./MAKEDEV snd0 rebuild the kernel and reboot. cat sorrydave.au > /dev/audio And it worked. Also of interest, % cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Jan 22 2001 16:21:02 Installed devices: pcm0: at io 0x534 irq 5 drq 1:0 (1p/1r channels duplex) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message