freebsd stable - Jul 2007 - What about Creative SoundBlaster Audigy SE

Thank you Pieter! Also thank you trasz@FreeBSD.org 
<mailto:trasz@FreeBSD.org?subject=FreeBSD%20Port:%20audio/oss> the 
maintainer of this port.

I first did what Pieter suggested:

I downloaded and installed the driver from opensound.

Pieter wrote:

Unfortunately the Audigy SE is not supported. You can try the audio/emu10kx 
port, but last time I tried it wouldn't work either. As far as I know the 
only way to make it work is to install 4Front's OSS drivers from 
www.opensound.com.

Hope this helps,
Pieter de Goeje

Then i did try all of the ossinfo, osson and off, ossplay, osstest etc..

When I ran osstest there were sound!!

When the port turned up at freshports.org I installed that port and I 
added into /etc/rc.conf the line *oss_enable="YES"* as stated in the 
terminal after the port was registered.

Rebooted

Performed *osstest* with good result.

*However I must be misunderstanding something.* When I try to run for 
example gxine there is *NO* sound and there are no sound in 
programme-execution which there usually are when one is starting an app 
in KDE.

Mysoundcard is:

Creative SoundBlaster Audigy *SE   *24-bit capability.

Don't really know if this is the correct forum for this question but is 
there someone who knows what kind of mistake I am making?

I really want to be able to have sound in my PC.

My very best regards

Tommy Rehn
Stockholm
Sweden

*My ossinfo output*
$ ossinfo
Version info: OSS 4.0 (build 070613/200707141637/G (0x00040002)
Platform: FreeBSD/i386 6.2-STABLE-200706 FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE-200706 #0: 
Sun Jun  3 14:20:02 UTC 2007     
root@dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP

Number of audio devices:        9
Number of audio engines:        9
Number of MIDI devices:         0
Number of mixer devices:        1


Device objects
 0: audigyls0 AudigyLS
 1: vmix0 OSS transparent virtual support

MIDI devices (/dev/midi*)

Mixer devices (/dev/mixer*)
 0: AudigyLS Mixer (Mixer 0 of device object 0)

Audio devices
/dev/oss/audigyls0/pcm0 AudigyLS front  (device index 0)
/dev/oss/audigyls0/pcm1 AudigyLS (shadow)  (device index 1)
/dev/oss/audigyls0/pcm2 AudigyLS center/lfe  (device index 2)
/dev/oss/audigyls0/pcm3 AudigyLS surround  (device index 3)
/dev/oss/audigyls0/pcm4 AudigyLS 5.1 output  (device index 4)
/dev/oss/vmix0/pcm0     AudigyLS front (VMIX0)  (device index 5)
/dev/oss/vmix0/pcm1     AudigyLS front (VMIX0)  (device index 6)
/dev/oss/vmix0/pcm2     AudigyLS front (VMIX0)  (device index 7)
/dev/oss/vmix0/pcm3     AudigyLS front (VMIX0)  (device index 8)
$

On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:44:06 +0200
Tommy Rehn <tommy.rehn1@comhem.se> wrote:
> *However I must be misunderstanding something.* When I try to run for 
> example gxine there is *NO* sound and there are no sound in 
> programme-execution which there usually are when one is starting an app 
> in KDE.
hi Tommy,
it seems an application issue - not supporting  OSS drivers. Try setting in the
configurations of these programs (and whatever sound daemon kde uses) the
correct audio device to use

it could be an access  right issue too - make sure you test as root with your
multimeidia app, or osstest with a normal user if doable). /etc/devfs.conf
shall be able to help you if it is ACL issue.

B
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