Apple Tumbler and Snapper audio: looking for testers

Nathan Whitehorn nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Fri Oct 10 03:10:25 UTC 2008


Justin Hibbits wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 06:03:52PM -0400, Justin Hibbits wrote:
>> I applied the patch, and got all the same output on my MDD as in your email, but
>> there is no /dev/pcm0.  I do have a /dev/sndstat, and /dev/mixer0.  The
> 
> What's really odd is that I don't have any /dev/pcm*.  I kldload'd snd_uaudio,
> which showed in the dmesg output as creating pcm1, but there is no /dev/pcm1
> either.  Any ideas why I wouldn't have a pcm device show up in /dev, but is
> created in the kernel?

Sound devices on FreeBSD show up as /dev/audio and /dev/dsp, not 
/dev/pcm*. It may or may not show up in a directory listing.

A good way to test your sound is to cat an au file (like this one: 
http://playground.sun.com/pub/p1275/misc/ofwsong.au) to /dev/audio.
-Nathan


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