Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 10:17:18 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Drew Sanford <drew@planetwe.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sound on Dell inspiron Message-ID: <20000526101718.F13702@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <00052516442100.00324@dorado.planetwe.com> References: <00052516442100.00324@dorado.planetwe.com>
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On Thursday, 25 May 2000 at 16:36:32 -0500, Drew Sanford wrote: > Hi, > I have FreeBSD 4.0 (from the CD) on a Dell Inspiron laptop. I'm running > the KDE desktop, and was wondering how to fix an error with the mixer. When > trying to start the mixer I get the following error: > > kmix: could not open mixer. > Perhaps you have no permission to access the mixer device. > Login as root and do a 'chmod a+rw /dev/mixer*' to allow the access. > > Well, I can't find /dev/mixer* ect...I am assuming that since I never actually > did it, that sound on this laptop is not configured. I'm familiar with linux, > and alot of stuff in BSD looks "the same, only different", so I'm assuming I'm > going to have to configure the sound. My questions are these: > > Is the configuration process for sound on FreeBSD and Linux basicly the > same, or is this one of the things thats different? I don't think there's anything in common, but I don't know Linux. > Has anyone configured sound on one of these beasts before, and > can they provide some clues? In order to answer that question, we need to know what kind of laptop you have. "Inspiron" isn't enough: they have model numbers as well. Also, the output of dmesg is important. > I'm not sure what sort of card is in this laptop either (I suppose I > could boot NT and look, but I'd really rather not.) I might be able to find that out if I knew what model you have. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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