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Date:      Sun, 30 Dec 2001 14:03:24 -0600
From:      Dennis White <dennyboy@cableone.net>
To:        Dennis White <dennyboy@cableone.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Yamaha opl sound
Message-ID:  <3C2F730C.12113622@cableone.net>
References:  <20011230132246.X70028-200000@serv1.wallnet.com> <3C2F7299.23936FC@cableone.net>

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Dennis White wrote:
> 
> Did you try, as root, typing kldload (loadable kernel module)
> to load the sound modules? Then you type cd /dev type
> sh MAKEDEV snd0
> If the modules work, sound will be enabled &, if it is, add
> the line snd_load="YES" to the /boot/loader.conf to load
> the kernel sound modules on boot.
> If the above doesn't work, you may have to do what I did on
> my Toshiba 4015CDT. If you copied the kernel source when
> you installed, good. Do cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf then copy
> the file there, GENERIC, to a new name & open it in vi, pico,
> whatever. Maybe one of the old timers around here will see
> this & correct me if I'm wrong, but I put it under pccard for
> want of a better spot just to find easy.  You hopefully know,
> maybe from a previous ms bloatstall, what port & irq your
> sound card uses. Hope so. Here's the line I used:
> device    pcm0    at  isa?   irq  5   drq1   flags  0x0
> Then save & exit. From /usr/src/sys/i386/conf, where you
> did your editing, do config NEWKERN (or whatever you
> named it. When it finishes, do cd ../../compile/NEWKERN
> and do make depend. When it finishes, so make & when
> it's done, make install. After, do /sbin/reboot or maybe
> shutdown -r now & after you finish rebooting,  do
> dmesg | grep pcm
> If it found your card, you'll see something like
> pcm0:  <ESS  18xx  DSP>  on sbc0
> Then su if not root already, & if dmesg showed pcm
> ending with 0, do
> cd /dev
> sh MAKEDEV snd0
> If dmesg shows sound devices ending with 1, you do:
> cd /dev
> sh MAKEDEV snd1
> Nothing is created in /dev starting with snd -- what's
> created are device nodes ending with 0 or 1 and
> symbolic links (with the same names but without a
> number) as follows:
> /dev/audio
> /dev/dsp
> /dev/dspW
> /dev/midi
> /dev/mixer
> /dev/music
> /dev/sequencer
> /dev/pss
> Got all of this from Annelise Anderson's book:
> FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for
> Your Personal Computer
> Best $22 I ever spent, being the newbie I am. :-)
> 2nd edition's out now too with 4.4 cd. Shameless
> plugging, but the lady's helped me a lot thru the
> mailing list & regular email. Besides dmesg, you
> can do cat /dev/sndstat & see the configured devices.
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Tim Kellers wrote:
> >
> > After doing battle with a Toshiba 4010CDS --now it dual boots into Win98
> > and 4.5 Pre-Release, I'm at a loss to make the sound work in KDE2.2
> >
> > The sound card is recognized (see attached dmesg -a).
> >
> > I just read through the "stable" archives on Freebsd.org and I saw where
> > some folks were having problems with Yamaha sound on laptops, but I didn't
> > see any resolution.
> >
> > Since this is a new install of 4.5 Pre, i figured I'd ask here, first.
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Tim Kellers
> > CPE/NJIT
> >
> >   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >            Name: zing
> >    zing    Type: Plain Text (TEXT/PLAIN)
> >        Encoding: BASE64

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