Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 11:37:35 -0500 From: Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getting sound Message-ID: <20051230113442.964C.GERARD@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <40D83E7E-BCDF-43F4-B852-AF66C3B0DD1E@redry.net> References: <40D83E7E-BCDF-43F4-B852-AF66C3B0DD1E@redry.net>
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On Friday, December 30, 2005 11:12:07 AM eoghan <freebsd@redry.net> Subject: getting sound Wrote these words of wisdom: > Hello > I have followed the manual page here for sound setup: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound- > setup.html > Im using freebsd 6.0 with generic kernel. Im not sure what sound > card came with my dell (its 3 years old). > So i did: > #kldload snd_emu10k1 > #kldload snd_driver > then: > #cat /dev/sndstat > FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) > Installed devices: > pcm0: <AudioPCI ES1371-B> at io 0xec40 irq 11 kld snd_es137x(1p/1r/0v > channels duplex default) > This is my first time trying to get the sound working. I try play an > mp3 ans dont hear anything. Perhaps using the snd_driver wont work in > my case... > Is there a way to get freeBSD to show my sound device so I can load > the correct module? Or is there something else im doing wrong? > Thanks > Eoghan ***** REPLY SEPARATOR ***** On 10/11/2005 5:29:42 PM, Gerard Replied: If the PC is only three years old, and assuming that no one has worked on it, just go to the Dell web site. Under 'support' you can navigate to where you can place your PC's serial # and it will display how the machine was built. That takes all the guess work out of finding out what is installed. -- Gerard Seibert gerard@seibercom.net
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