Sound & KDE

[Gerard Seibert]

On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 18:38:02 -0500 Trey Sizemore <trey at fastmail.fm>
wrote:

|>Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 18:38:02 -0500
|>From: Trey Sizemore <trey at fastmail.fm>
|>Subject: Re: Sound and KDE
|>To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
|>Message-ID: <1102117082.687.3.camel at localhost>
|>Content-Type: text/plain
|>
|>On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 17:17 -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote:
|>> 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
|>
|>
|>Have you tried:
|>
|># kldload snd_driver
|>
|>I have a SoundBlaster Live! card, so I was more specific and used
|>
|># kldload snd_emu10k1
|>
|>and added snd_emu10k1_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf, restarted the
|>machine, and now it works like a champ.  See 
|>
|>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html
|>
|>for more info.
|>
|>HTH!


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Saturday, December 04, 2004 7:21:44 AM

If I am understanding you correctly, I have to add that information
into the '/boot/bootloader.conf' file even though I have sound compiled
into my 'kernel'. I thought that compiling sound into the 'kernel' took
care of that. In any case, I will try your suggestion.

Thanks!

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