From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 20 01:31:24 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCEA5106566C for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 01:31:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olivares14031@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 480788FC13 for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 01:31:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz12 with SMTP id 12so332556bwz.13 for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:31:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=cBh5dMLaK0XRm5z9VSqfe/uNf3CwZgW5Gt0u9o47EyM=; b=eYIdI+yqOGdXUR7OpS2dvK3oU+2W9Wc3Z6dce57L/n5jqhu/sreSpClPsqvDP/ppQg 6viMTKRcrxPy5WndsfOZIXsaTv6bxFOpC9r0Bz+QgE59gfYP9dWYJbOitEXFCpeqi0ij X6GBbdw9ZPh6ASyDD0wXRE9UUQo9PJ1UmVuW8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=PfH8QrtGlcaytxoXZ4kajuclxSz5Z7QWdsKmrlGWei9O7MTDM4VI8qeRHI9ebM0fip p1TnrdzeCEuGUJaWnv49rXnCZKFaOHhiAH5F2JWrS+IhbhZxdB3Ws5/Riha/o8CN+RUF tpnb6VJhkphNCe5ah7aHyfs01sgLU6WVCZ3ZU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.73.206 with SMTP id r14mr5609202bkj.181.1303263083097; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:31:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.65.198 with HTTP; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:31:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110419043207.0932f0a9.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <1303137127.24099.10.camel@zbox> <20110419043207.0932f0a9.freebsd@edvax.de> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:31:23 -0500 Message-ID: From: Antonio Olivares To: Polytropon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: can't determine sound card driver to use in /etc/rc.conf X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 01:31:24 -0000 On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:53:41 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: >> Apparently it works, but I put in some small speakers, but could not >> get music to play. > > On some machines, speakers do not activate automatically, > they need a "driver" that switches the connector to active. > Also check mixer settings. ALWAYS check them. :-) > > > >> Installed mplayer from within ports, >> # cd /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer >> # make install clean >> and tried to play some mp3's and got a codec error :(, since machine >> is 64 bit installing codecs from mplayer site does not work :(, and >> linux compatibility is not installed. > > Use command line tools like madplay or mpg123 for testing. > Also consider using xmms as a versatile MP3 (and OGG/Vorbis) > media player. > Mplayer played some ogg files that I had correctly and sound is working :) snd_hda did the trick :) > > >> Sorry for drifting out of >> original sound problem, but I also tried to play a dvd and it failed >> to load since atapi cam was not =A0in /boot/loader.conf because cd/dvd >> drive is old style(not SATA) This is now working correctly :), added the command in /boot/loader.conf > That doesn't matter. I have parallel ATA devices here that > play nicely with ATAPICAM (mainly in use for CD and DVD > recording). But you shouldn't need to have ATAPICAM in order > to play DVDs. I know that mplayer has a configuration option > for that... maybe it's sufficient to link /dev/acd0 to /dev/dvd link exists /dev/dvd -> /dev/acd0 but dvd does not play :( > (per /etc/devfs.conf) to provide the default location, or > use -dvd-device to name it on the command line. Also > make sure you have the required codecs installed. Since the machine is 64 bit having the codecs does no good :(, I ran the configuration and tried to install Realplayer which tried to pull linux compatibility which I did not want and reran config. > Going > through "make config" in mplayer (or mencoder) is always > a good choice. > However, playing dvd's does not seem to work :( I try to run $ mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/acd0 and it complains about not finding some vob Sorry for not posting exact error will do so tomorrow as soon as I can. > > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > Thanks to all folks who have advised me. I am close to setting up the system to my liking. Regards, Antonio