gnome startup : \"can\'t find /dev/sound/mixer\"

[Gilad Rom]

freebsd at sp1r1t.de wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> 
> I have FreeBSD 4.8 installed on an AMD thunderbird 800 and i am using gnome.
> everytime i start gnome, i get the error message \"cant open /dev/sound/mixer\".
> There is a Sound Blaster 128 Pro PCI installed in the box, but neither does /dev/sound
> exist, nor can i spot anything that looks as if it could be a sound card in the output of dmesg.
> 
> a threat at linuxquestions.org [1] exists that seems to describe the same problem and someone claims the solution was to rebuild the kernel with soundcart support, but noone did further comment on that proposal.
> 
> is there no sound card support in freebsd 4.8 by default? do i have to rebuild the kernel?
> or is there another solution to my problem?     
> 
> thanks for your annswers,
> 
> tim
> freebsd at sp1r1t.de
> 
> [1] http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/17/2003/06/2/63923
> 
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FreeBSD does not include sound support by default in the GENERIC kernel.
There are, however, loadable kernel modules which you can load
to introduce sound support into the kernel.

try 'kldload snd_pcm', and then 'cat /dev/sndstat'.
/dev/sndstat should contain a description of your sound
card. Also, try 'man pcm'.

Gilad.