sound support

[Alexander Leidinger]

On Fri, 20 May 2005 11:05:02 -0400
Mathew Kanner <mat at cnd.mcgill.ca> wrote:

> On May 19, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > Arne W?rner <arne_woerner at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > >You should use
> > > device sound
> > >and
> > > device snd_XXX
> > >(where XXX denotes your sound card)
> > 
> > I suggest a different approach:
> > - "kldload /boot/kernel/snd*"
> > - "cat /dev/sndstat"
> > - have a look at the output and search for snd_XXX
> > - add 'snd_load="YES"' and 'snd_XXX_load="YES"' to /boot/loader.conf
> 
> 	100x I agree, except his question was 'why doesn't it compile'
> not 'how do I setup sound'.

Yes, but I decided to try to solve the problem he wanted to solve, not
the problem he noticed while he tried to solve the first problem. :-)

                               I think we should put some emphasis on
> getting the man page to recommend using kld's before recompiling the
> kernel.

ACK.

Bye,
Alexander.

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            0 and 1. Now what could be so hard about that?

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