Confused about sound servers

[T Kellers]

Don't use both device pcm and the .ko modules.  The sound won't work at all 
or, if it does, not properly.  You may not even have any keyboard beeps 
(^G's) if both are loaded.

Get rid of the device pcm and just load the modules.

KDE comes with artsd as it's sound server; some people love it, some people 
hate it and some people (like me) both love and hate it :)

Make sure you are loading the correct .ko file for your card, I'm not sure 
that snd_emu10k.ko is the correct one, but I could be wrong.

Tim Kellers
CPE/NJIT



On Friday 02 January 2004 02:49 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> I run KDE, Gnome, and occasionally IceWM (although I haven't yet
> installed this on my FreeBSD machine).  Coming from a linux background,
> I'm a little confused about sound servers.  I have a SoundBlaster Live
> Value PCI card on my machine running 5.2-CURRENT.
>
> I have compiled my kernel with 'device PCM' and in my /boot/loader.conf
> I have put
>
> snd_pcm_load="YES"
> snd_emu10k1_load="YES"
>
> What sound server(s) is/are recommended to install.  I know that Gnome
> typically uses ess, and KDE can use arts.  Should both of these be
> installed to have sound in these environments?  How about others such as
> Xfce and IceWM?
>
> I want to enable system sounds as well as sound for XMMS and other
> programs.  The card is recognized and showing up in dmesg.
>
> I've read in another post that I don't need to run
>
> # sh MAKEDEV snd0
>
> in the /dev directory with FreeBSD 5.X series, is this true.
>
> Right now I have no sound.
>
> Thanks.
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