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Date:      Fri, 21 Sep 2001 12:17:52 -0400
From:      Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org>
To:        Matt Lipa <mlipa@excite.com>
Cc:        multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sound card
Message-ID:  <3BAB6830.F9C0DBAA@mitre.org>
References:  <5545742.1001088414651.JavaMail.imail@frente.excite.com>

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Matt Lipa wrote:
> 
> hello,
> I am trying to compile my kernel to use my sound card. I have read LINT and
> the sound.doc that it referances. My problem is that I have a Soundblaster
> Live. If you could tell me how to specify that in the kernel, or let me know
> where I could find it  that would be great. Also, I am probably not the
> first to ask you abou this, so maybe Soundblaster Live and Soundblaster
> Platinum would be nice additions to the LINT file. It seems to me a lot of
> people are turning their machines into Freebsd workstations, as I am, so
> adding support for those cards would be benificial. Anyways, any help would
> be greatly appreciated. Thank you for any help you can provide.

The sound is really easy to configure in the kernel now, it's one line:

device pcm

It's even modularized so you don't necessarily have to build it into the
kernel directly.

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