Confused about sound servers

[Trey Sizemore]

Eric F Crist wrote:

>On Friday 02 January 2004 02:06 pm, T Kellers wrote:
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>>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.
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>I find I only add the device pcm line to my kernel and everything works fine.  
>Gnome, KDE, console beeps.  Everything works and I don't usually worry about 
>the sound servers.  When you install one of the window managers, as long as 
>you install the multimedia package, the correct sound server gets installed 
>too.  This has been working for me for about 5 years now.
>
>HTH
>
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>
Update here...I have removed the entries in /boot/loader.conf and now 
only have the kernel compiled with my 'device PCM' entry.

'dmesg | grep pcm' shows my soundcard entry and cat /dev/sndstat shows 
it as well.

I have rebooted after taking the entries out of loader.conf.

When I try something like

% play KDE_Beep_Ahem.wav

I get:

play: /dev/dsp: Operation not supported by device

What might be causing this that I could look into?

Thanks.