From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 7 08:58:10 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADB2B16A403 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2007 08:58:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from omr6.networksolutionsemail.com (omr6.networksolutionsemail.com [205.178.146.56]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7277413C481 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2007 08:58:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from mail.networksolutionsemail.com (ns-omr6.mgt.netsol.com [10.49.6.69]) by omr6.networksolutionsemail.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id l278w9LL019087 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2007 03:58:09 -0500 Received: (qmail 23818 invoked by uid 78); 7 Mar 2007 08:58:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.15.200?) (racerx@makeworld.com@71.113.184.254) by ns-omr6.lb.hosting.dc2.netsol.com with SMTP; 7 Mar 2007 08:58:09 -0000 Message-ID: <45EE7E9B.9070609@makeworld.com> Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:58:03 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070103) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20070307080709.GA12501@parts-unknown.org> In-Reply-To: <20070307080709.GA12501@parts-unknown.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.2.0 OpenPGP: id=C01BC363 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: .wavs play but not .mp3s X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: racerx@makeworld.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:58:10 -0000 David Benfell wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm not having any trouble playing .wav files; lame -h > seems to happily convert them, and mpg123 and madplay > don't complain when I ask them to play .mp3s, but I'm > also not hearing any sound. > > xmms does nothing. I'm not getting any visible errors > in any of this. > > I tried using the sample command from the FreeBSD manual, > which specifies a device; I don't have dsp1.0 so I tried > dsp0.0 . > > I have: > > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 45 Mar 2 13:49 /dev/dsp0.0 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 48 Mar 6 22:28 /dev/dsp0.1 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 51 Mar 2 13:49 /dev/dsp0.2 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 54 Mar 2 13:49 /dev/dsp0.3 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 57 Mar 2 13:49 /dev/dsp0.4 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 61 Mar 2 13:49 /dev/dsp0.5 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 46 Mar 2 13:49 /dev/dspW0.0 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 49 Mar 2 13:49 /dev/dspW0.1 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 52 Mar 2 13:49 /dev/dspW0.2 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 55 Mar 2 13:49 /dev/dspW0.3 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 58 Mar 2 13:49 /dev/dspW0.4 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 62 Mar 2 13:49 /dev/dspW0.5 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 60 Mar 2 13:49 /dev/dspr0.4 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 64 Mar 2 13:49 /dev/dspr0.5 > > So, why is this such a problem? > This looks like it might be a Sony device (or perhaps an HDA Intel sound device). If this is the case, try the OSS sound drivers. I had to use them from 6.0 till current. Not sure if 6.2 supports the above natively (only because I went with what I knew worked). Here's the link: http://www.opensound.com/download.cgi It's really easy to install. -- Best regards, Chris Nothing is ever so bad that it can't get worse.