sound works with kldload, but not /boot/loader.conf?

[Adam Smith]

On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 08:28:32PM -0500, Robert William Vesterman said:
> Hi,
> 
> I just tried playing a WAV file using xmms (this is the first time I've 
> tried anything with sound on my installation).  It issued a very generic 
> error message, telling me things like "make sure your device is 
> installed".  I did some research (mostly in the FreeBSD handbook), and 
> eventually got my sound working by doing a "kldload snd_driver". 
> 
> I then changed /boot/loader.conf to contain the line:
> 
> snd_driver_load="YES"
> 
> So that I wouldn't have to "kldload snd_driver" every time.  After 
> rebooting, xmms acted like it was playing the song - no error message, 
> equalizer lights happily jumping around, et cetera - but no sound came out.

You may need to adjust your mixer settings.  Run 'mixer' and have a look at
the output.  You can modify any of the settings there by running, for
example:

mixer pcm 90
mixer vol 90

(for me to get any sound at all, I need to have both of these turned up).

You can then store those settings somehow but I can't remember how to do
that off the top of my head.


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