Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 11:26:26 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Generic Player <generic@unitedtamers.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getting sound with an SB AWE64 on FreeBSD 4.0-release Message-ID: <392D7052.9C94A5E5@3-cities.com> References: <003101bfc633$d9850b30$ec6c4418@x> <392D0221.AF58F2F6@3-cities.com> <392D0689.91E54F59@3-cities.com> <392D11DE.E421A5A0@unitedtamers.com>
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Generic Player wrote: > > Kent Stewart wrote: > > > Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > > > > Generic Player wrote: > > > > > > > > Hey, > > > > > > > > I have seen a few people having trouble with getting sound working, > > > > and seen people tell them just "add device pcm and ./MAKEDEV snd0". > > > > And I have found a few places online that show how to set it up > > > > using an outdated method that doesn't work, using "controller pnp0" > > > > and stuff like that. Problem is, neither is working. I went into > > > > /dev and did an sh MAKEDEV snd0, and then sh MAKEDEV snd1. I added > > > > to my kernel device pcm. No dice. My card is an ISA pnp AWE64. On > > > > boot up, I get the following for my sound card: > > > > > > > > sbc0 <creative AWE64> at port 0x220-0x22f,0x330-0x331,0x388-0x38b > > > > irq 5 drq 1,5 on isa0 > > > > sbc0 setting card to irq 5 drq 1,5 > > > > pcm0 <SB DSP 4.16> on sbc0 > > > > > > > > I'm new at this, but that looks like its detecting and assigning > > > > resources to my card like it should. But any program I run just > > > > tells me my sound card isn't found or isn't configured or another > > > > program is using it. > > > > > > You have to run the makedev after you boot the kernel with the driver > > > in it. I have an isa AWE64 and I added > > > > > > # pcm Sound Device Driver > > > device pcm > > > > > > # For non-PnP cards: > > > device sbc0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 flags 0x15 > > > > Wrong system. I have an AWE32 in one of my systems and all I did was > > add the "device pcm" and do the makedev after booting the new kernel. > > > > Since you have a kernel with the "device pcm" in it, have you just > > tried redoing the MAKEDEV. > > > Kent > > > > > OK, I tried that now and I have sound. Glad it was that simple. Now, you > said you don't use sound in KDE, but do you know much about it? When Getting sound on FreeBSD really is simple but you have a 1, 2, and 3 sequence that you have to follow. You missed what I meant, I think. The only time I use sound is in KDE. > I startx I get the error from KDE: > > Could not find mime type > audio/x-playlist > in /usr/local/share/applnk/Multimedia/KMp3.kdelnk Sound like you have a setup problem in KDE but I don't know what. I installed KDE from the port. I know I had to tell KDE to use system sounds from the KDE control panel. I went to sound > system sounds > "enable system sounds". When I did that and matched up the sounds with the appropriate wav, I had sound in KDE. You might find what the quality of sound on your system is by playing with the system sounds. What I get is as good as I get from Windows 2000. Making kscd run was a matter of telling it to use the proper device. I have an ATA cdrom, which is /dev/acd0c from the setup. You get into kscd setup by clicking the button with the screwdriver and the hammer on it. You select your CDROM dev from the kscd option tab. Getting cddb to work is more trouble. You have to be online and "enable remote cddb". Then you have to modify the cddb server from www.cddb.com to "us.cddb.com" and tell it to update. It thinks a bit and suddenly you have 6 CDDB Servers. I kind of wonder if it is a KDE version problem. I'm running kde-1.1.2, kdebase-1.1.2, and kdelibs-1.1.2.1. I haven't tried to do any MP3. You might find it is scratchy because of your network connection. I've been trying to learn spanish and playing shouted MP3 streams over my 56kb modem is not as good as I expected. I have one radio station from Oaxaca, Mexico that I can listen to with out noise. It only broadcasts mono but I haven't tried to run it on FreeBSD. I use Winamp on W2K. In the room where I spend most of my time, I have a P-III 450 - W2K machine on one side and a P-II 400 running FreeBSD on the other. I'm usually want all of the system and I run my audio on the W2K machine. If I were doing big, long builds on W2K, I would play the audio on the FreeBSD system. It doesn't matter to me if the sound comes from the front or the back. I'm doing a buildworld right now but will try to do MP3 when I get through. I have number of wav audios that I have on my server. I nfs_mount the drive and play the wav from KDE. It is Kmedia. They sound great. > > And if I run xmms all I get is scratchy noises, but mp3blaster will play > mp3s just fine. Any ideas? No idea. I think I installed xmms on one of my machines but have never run it. Kent > > Thanks > Generic Player <snip> -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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