Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 13:03:02 -0700 From: Gary Schenk <gwschenk@socal.rr.com> To: stclair@niue.nu, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sound Card Message-ID: <3EC543F6.8060906@socal.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <200305160847.47940.stclair@niue.nu> References: <200305160829.14589.stclair@niue.nu> <200305161242.43695.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> <200305160847.47940.stclair@niue.nu>
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Richard StClair wrote: >>>I have a standard ordinary SB16 sound card....in this particular >>>machine....on a standard install, what do I have to do to get bsd to >>>see it and use it? I thought it would just do it on install. >> >>FreeBSD Handbook, Chapter 16, Section 2, "Setting Up The Sound Card". >>It's a really great handbook. Absolutely wonderful. > > > I'm sure it's fantastic.....mine has been on it's way for some period of weeks > now. We get one boat per month to Niue with mail on it, and if something > misses that boat then it takes another month to get here. So I'm still > waiting for my copy....and in the meantime I was hoping to get this machine > running a little better. > > But thanks for the tip. > Try here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/multimedia.html I speak from experience when I tell you that you'll have much more luck gettting help with problems when people get the impression that you've tried researching on your own first. The Handbook online is a great place to start. There are several good books out, also. I've used 'FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System For your Personal Computer' by Annelise Anderson and 'FreeBSD Unleashed' by Urban and Tiemann. Another book I've just started is 'Unix Shell Programming' by Kochan and Wood. The introductory chapters about the nuts and bolts of Unix are very good and full of useful information for us newbies. The best place to get help is on the freebsd-questions mailing list. The newbies list is really not for technical help. Good luck with the sound card. It is quite easy actually, even I had no problem with it! If after following the instructions from the handbook you still don't get sound, then try the questions list. Gary
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