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Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 18:10:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: Chuck Rouillard <chuckr@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com>
To: Narles <crtb@cape.com>
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Subject: Re: Sound devs in 4.2?
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On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Narles wrote:

> I can't seem to build a kernel with audio devices configured!
> In FreeBSD 4.2Release, with either a PCI or ISA sound card,
> I have tried various combinations of
>     device pcm	(or pcm0 or pcm0 with params)
>     device snd	(ditto)
>     device sbc
>     device sb
>     device sbxvi
>     device sbmidi
>     device opl
> and can't get /dev/sequencer (among others) to appear.
> dmesg | egrep 'pcm|sb|midi'   announces
>
>     pcm0: <AudioPCI ES1371> port 0x6500-0x653f irq 11 at device 13.0 on pci0
>
> but /dev/{midi,music,pss,sequencer} remain "unconfigured".
>
> I can send stuff through /dev/audio and hear it, but alas, all my
> audio software wants /dev/sequencer before anything else!
>
> /dev/sndstat delivers this info:
>
>     FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) May 10 2001 11:38:48
>     Installed devices:
>     pcm0: <AudioPCI ES1371> at io 0x6500 irq 11 (1p/1r channels duplex)
>
> Neither LINT nor the man pages say whether I should have anything
> other than "device pcm" there; the suggestion in LINT is that the
> other devices belong with "device snd" which is said to be deprecated.
[snip]

Since I see `pcm0' there:

# cd /dev ; /bin/sh MAKEDEV snd0

Note that there -won't- be a /dev/snd entry.

.cr


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