Sound and KDE

[Gerard Seibert]

I have just recently completed a fresh install of FreeBSD 5.3. Upon 
completion, I built a new 'kernel', which included a sound driver. 
Everything seems to work correctly. Using 'cdcontrol', I can play an audio 
disk without any problems.

Unfortunately, I cannot get sound to work in KDE. I have the latest 
versions of 'xorg' and 'kde' loaded. When 'kde' loads, it displays this 
error message:

Sound Server information 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

I have no idea where to proceed from this point. When I had FreeBSD 5.2.1 
installed, 'kde' worked fine. I formatted the HD prior to installing the 
new version to minimize any latent errors from being introduced into the 
new version. Therefore, nothing from the old version could be the cause of 
this problem.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks!

Gerard Seibert
gerard-seibert at rcn.com

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