freebsd 5.1 and devfs

[Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]]

On Tuesday 13 January 2004 18:51, Frederick Thomas wrote:
> shalom,
>       I read the manpage on devfs and can't make heads or tails of it. I've
> a cs4236 onboard pnp sound card that took 2 months to finally get running
> and I'm gonna wait that long this time. My box is a dell optiplex gx1 and
> using old school rules catted dmesg.boot and found pcm0<my card> but when I
> tried to run sh MAKEDEV snd0 I find that makedev is now deprecated. please
> assist in my using devfs to make device nodes please reply to address
> above. Thanks
If the card is detected as pcm0 and devfs is running, you should have entries 						
for the device in /dev named dsp*

"cat /dev/sndstat" should also list the device.

good luck,
Daan