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Date:      Fri, 18 Oct 2002 19:24:39 -0400
From:      "Kenneth Lewis" <kenlewis@vt.edu>
To:        "dweinberg1" <dweinberg1@comcast.net>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: hi i am having a problem with my sound and with my cdrom drive working.
Message-ID:  <024601c276fd$8865eda0$0300a8c0@NATHAN>
References:  <200210181904.57191.dweinberg1@comcast.net>

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----- Original Message -----
From: "dweinberg1" <dweinberg1@comcast.net>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 8:04 PM
Subject: hi i am having a problem with my sound and with my cdrom drive
working.


> Hi i added 'device     pcm' to my kernel and for some reason my sound is
> showing up on the system when i type 'dmesg | grep pcm" i made the device
> nodes in /dev for snd0 and i setup the mixer so that the volume is up on X
> windows i can hear the speakers humming but when i try and play a .wav
file
> from the sound menu of multimedia nothing happens.

You probably need to disable esound using the sound monitor applet.  Simply
add the monitor to a panel (if it's not there already) and choose the "place
esound in stanby" option.
>
> I also tried to setup my cdrom by adding 'device       cd' to the kernel
but
> nothing seems to happen i can use the cdrom to install packages but i cant
> seem to use the cdrom to play music in X windows.
>
> (btw i am using Gnome as a window manager.)
> please help me its been driving me crazy thanx.
>
> sincerely,
> David Weinberg
>
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