Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 12:31:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Ed Alley <alley1@llnl.gov> To: <jcouch@netdoor.com> Cc: <lahaye@users.sourceforge.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Can't get SoundBlaster to work with 4.3! Message-ID: <20010713122639.A40942-100000@jordan.llnl.gov> In-Reply-To: <01071314013201.98960@katana.amberskogg.dns2go.com>
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WoW! that's sneaky! I don't use KDE or anything like that, because I don't like software that does things behind my back. :( On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Jim Couch wrote: > Ed, Something I ran into was that I had to accept the defaults that KDE and > ARTS assigned it any variance (as in setting any of the check boxes results > in no system sound from the arts server, however the Pysol soundserver did > work which it doesn't now that the arts server is...... > > > On Friday 13 July 2001 12:42 pm, Ed Alley wrote: > > Sorry if I'm comming in late on this question, > > but I picked it up in the digest. I'm running > > 4.3 with a soundblaster card. It is a pci card > > with pnp so set-up is easy. > > > > > Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 15:33:06 +0900 > > > From: "R. Lahaye" <lahaye@users.sourceforge.net> > > > Subject: Can't get SoundBlaster to work with 4.3! > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm running 4.3 ... > > > > The sound interface has changed (even since 4.2). > > > > > I have tried the guidelines in the Free BSD handbook, that > > > comes with the installation. It talks vagely about the sound > > > setup for SoundBlaster 16. > > > > Out of date... > > > > > I added in MYKERNEL config: > > > > > > device pcm > > > device pcm0 at isa? irq 5 drq 1 flags 0x0 > > > > Unless you have an old isa sound card, all you > > need is: device pcm. The driver will probe the > > pci bus and assign the irqs and etc.. You may > > have forced the kernel to assign the incorrect > > irg or drq. Watch out for the flags setting too. > > I assume that you have read: pcm(4) ??? > > > > > I then made the devices: > > > > > > # cat /dev/sndstat > > > FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Jul 13 2001 14:16:12 > > > Installed devices: > > > pcm1: <SB16 DSP 4.16 (ViBRA16X)> at io 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 (1p/1r > > > > channels) > > > > > # cd /dev > > > # ./MAKEDEV snd0 > > > # ./MAKEDEV snd1 > > > > After you do this then try catting something into dsp0, dsp1 > > etc until you find the connected devices. After that you can > > soft link to them: > > > > ln -sf /dev/dsp0 dsp > > > > etc... > > > > where dsp0 is the one that worked. > > > > MAKEDEV will make softlinks to the last dsp? that you > > made. This may be the wrong one so test dsp0, dsp1, etc > > until you find the one that works, then set the softlink > > to that one. The same goes for the dev/audio softlink as well: > > If audio0 is the one that works, then make sure that the /dev/audio > > softlink points to it. > > > > Also make sure that the permissions are not > > messed up for access to the device files: > > > > crw-r--r-- 1 root wheel ... dsp0 > > > > would not work for dsp0 if you wanted to write > > to it for instance. > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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