sound setup in freebsd handbook

Marc Fonvieille blackend at FreeBSD.org
Sun Aug 29 16:43:45 UTC 2004


On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 07:35:53PM +0300, Miika Komu wrote:
> Chapter "7.2 Setting Up the Sound Card" is somewhat deprecated in the
> handbook. There is no "device pcm" in FreeBSD 5.3-BETA2 anymore. For
> example, if you have a sound card with es137x chip you need to configure
> the kernel with:
> 
>   device          sound
>   device          "snd_es137x"
> 
> instead of:
> 
>   device         pcm
>

It's a known problem, this part is currently under rewritting and will
be up-to-date for 5.3-RELEASE

Marc



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