Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:15:23 +0100 From: "Nick J. Date" <nick.date@ukonline.co.uk> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Open Sound System on FreeBSD 6 RC1 Message-ID: <014601c5d8a5$6046e6f0$02fea8c0@nickdate>
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Hiya! I've just "upgraded" my FreeBSD installation from 5.4-RELEASE to 6.0-RC1. With 5.4 I learnt that my sound card (SoundBlaster Live! 24-bit) wasn't supported by the drivers that come with FreeBSD, so I was using the free version of the Open Sound System (www.opensound.com) drivers. On installing 6.0-RC1, I didn't want to take any chances so I downloaded the OSS drivers again (selecting 6.0-RC1 as my operating system this time). The installation and sound tests completed fine and I could hear music being played. However, although the driver now loads on startup, it doesn't load any sort of mixer support and the device /dev/mixer doesn't exist. Even attempting to load OSS's own mixer software reports that /dev/mixer is non-existant. A re-install doesn't help and I can't find any option in the set up program that might make the mixer work. Has anyone else had a similar problem, and if so does anyone know of a solution? Anyway, if anyone could give me a hand or point me in the right direction it would be highly appreciated. Kind regards, Nick. -- Nick Date Bath, England, UK
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