Hi, im a newbie to freebsd. I just installed 5.1, but my sound isnt working, im not sure if I have to install the alsa sound drivers or not. the integrated sound I have with my shuttle mv42n board is Via AC97 sound, and when I go into kde i get the error message Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. , can someone please provide me with some steps to get this working please. Regards. Brian
> Hi, im a newbie to freebsd. I just installed 5.1, but my sound isntworking, im not sure if I> have to install the alsa sound drivers or not. the integrated sound I havewith my shuttle> mv42n board is Via AC97 sound, and when I go into kde i get the errormessage You have to compile snd into the kernel or load the snd driver module - hope that it supports that chipset. Alsa or oss is obsolete.
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 15:55, Tyndall, B. wrote:> Hi, im a newbie to freebsd. I just installed 5.1, but my sound isnt working, im not sure if I have to install the alsa sound drivers or not. the integrated sound I have with my shuttle mv42n board is Via AC97 sound, and when I go into kde i get the error messageAlsa drivers are a Linux-only thing. You should be able to get sound working by doing: kldload snd Then, when you figure out which exact sound driver to use (e.g. snd_via8233), you can add it to /boot/loader.conf. For example: snd_via8233_load="YES" Then you'll have sound every time you boot. Joe> > Sound server informational message: > Error while initializing the sound driver: > device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory) > The sound server will continue, using the null output device. > > , can someone please provide me with some steps to get this working please. > > > Regards. > > Brian > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"-- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20030727/abcc4a00/attachment.bin
On Sunday 27 July 2003 21:55, Tyndall, B. wrote:> Hi, im a newbie to freebsd. I just installed 5.1, but my sound isnt > working, im not sure if I have to install the alsa sound drivers or not. > the integrated sound I have with my shuttle mv42n board is Via AC97 sound, > and when I go into kde i get the error message > > Sound server informational message: > Error while initializing the sound driver: > device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory) > The sound server will continue, using the null output device. > > , can someone please provide me with some steps to get this working please. > > > Regards. > > Brian >I have the same chip and it works with device pcm compiled into the kernel. Shuttle could be different then mine, but... Should give the same result. Zoran
On Monday 28 July 2003 19:43, you wrote:> which configuration file do i use to make a copy of and add that call? is > it GENERIC or is there another one which was used when initially installing > freebsd?Well! cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf or something like this. cp GENERIC MYNEWKERNEL Then in new file add device pcm. If you have KDE and a lot of graphic apps, some unneeded options in this file will do nothing to you. I would remove everything not needed, but its up to you. Then... follow you book: cd /usr/src make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYNEWKERNEL make installkernel KERNCONF=MYNEWKERNEL reboot When you're up again, and you will, couse everyone did, you will listen to the music the way you like. But, use, for your sake something like cdcontrol for CD and mpg123 for mp3 files. KDE is something really big and you use freeBSD for simplicity and configurability. Yes? Well (again)! The true pleasure on this system is looking for the solution, not having the digested one. Zoran