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Date:      Sun, 19 Mar 2000 09:58:20 -0500
From:      Walter Brameld <brameld@twave.net>
To:        Jonathan <spoofy@insync.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sound blaster
Message-ID:  <00031910012900.02460@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0003190847080.25646-100000@vellocet.insync.net>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0003190847080.25646-100000@vellocet.insync.net>

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On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Jonathan wrote:
> Ok i couldnt get my ESS working so i bought a sound blaster 16..
> and i can get the kernel to dectect it 
> 
> npx0 on motherboard
> npx0: INT 16 interface
> sb0 at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 on isa
> snd0: <SoundBlaster 16 4.13>
> sbxvi0 at drq 5 on isa
> snd0: <SoundBlaster 16 4.13>
> sbmidi0 at 0x330 on isa
> snd0: <SoundBlaster MPU-401>
> changing root device to wd0s1a
> 
> BUT when i go to a mp3 program it says "cant open audio device" i thought
> it was that i have to ./MAKEDEV snd0  but when i do that it still doesnt
> work...but it also doesnt disply the snd0 under /dev/ any ideas?
> 
> J@

MAKEDEV snd0 will not make a device snd0. What it does is make links
for devices such as mixer -> mixer0, dsp -> dsp0, etc.

What is the output of the command "cat /dev/sndstat"?

-- 
Walter Brameld

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