From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 12 5:34:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 589EF37BD20 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 05:34:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.253.88.17]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000712123435.NUAO16423.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 13:34:35 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA01646; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 13:34:29 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 13:34:28 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Kevin Oberman Cc: "David J. Kanter" , FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: Which /dev for "device pcm" in kernel? Message-ID: <20000712133428.A237@parish> References: <20000711183526.A249@localhost.localdomain> <200007120012.e6C0C5n01056@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200007120012.e6C0C5n01056@ptavv.es.net>; from oberman@es.net on Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 05:12:05PM -0700 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 05:12:05PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 18:35:26 -0500 > > From: "David J. Kanter" > > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > > > On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 04:46:20PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > > > Yes, but don't forget that /dev is not in your $PATH (unless you added > > > it) so you must do ``./MAKEDEV'' > > > > [snip] > > > > > I can only think that you mistyped. This is what you should have: > > ---end quoted text--- > > > > You were right. So I did ./MAKEDEV snd0 in /dev, then rebooted. Still, > > there's no /dev/snd0: > > MAKEDEV snd0 makes a number of devices, but snd0 is NOT one of > them. You will (and did) get audio0, dsp0, midi0, mixer0, and all of > the others you listed. > That's what I thought too, until I looked in *my* /dev and found snd{,0,1}. Looking closer I find that they are regular files, not device nodes, obviously the result of cat(1)ing sound files to the wrong device. Doh! sorry for the misleading info. > This is not a problem, but normal behavior. > > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 -- If I buy a copy of WinDelete, and it doesn't delete Windows, am I entitled to my money back? ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message