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From: Russell Francis <frussell@p1.cs.ohiou.edu>
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To: Alexandre Florio <alexandre@cipher.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Sound Problem
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> Hi All,
> 
> 	I've got an ESS Technology PCI sound card. 
> 	For installation on FreeBSD (4.2-RELEASE), I did the following, under
> handbook's recomendation: 
> 
> 	- added `device pcm` to kernel configuration;
> 	- recompiled the kernel;
> 	- installed the new kernel;
> 	- cd /dev; sh MAKEDEV snd0; sh MAKEDEV snd1.
> 
> 	This is the output of cat /dev/sndstat:
> 
> 	FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Feb  9 2001 17:01:26
> 	Installed devices:
> 	pcm0: <ESS Solo-1E> at io 0xd800,0xd400,0xd000 irq 7 (1p/1r channels)
> 
> 	This is the dmesg output related to pcm configuration:
> 
> 	pcm0: <ESS Solo-1E> port
> 0xb400-0xb403,0xb800-0xb803,0xd000-0xd00f,0xd400-0xd40f,0xd800-0xd83f irq
> 7 at device 6.0 on pci0
> 
> 	But when I try playing something...
> 
> alexandre@is32:/usr/home/alexandre/downloads$ mpg123
> Br_Project_-_Animal_Mix_\(final_mix\).mp3 
> High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2 and 3.
> Version 0.59r (1999/Jun/15). Written and copyrights by Michael Hipp.
> Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more!
> THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
> /dev/dsp: Device not configured
> /dev/dsp: Device not configured
> /dev/dsp: Device not configured
> audio: Device not configured
> 
> 	Does anybody knows what can be going on, or where I can find more
> information regarding configuring sound with FreeBSD? 
> 
> 	Thanx a lot...

I had similar problems too and don't know exactly why it happens but when
I play it through /dev/dsp0 it works great :-)


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