Open Sound System on FreeBSD 6 RC1
Nick J. Date
nick.date at ukonline.co.uk
Mon Oct 24 10:55:57 PDT 2005
Hi Andrew!
Many thanks! I'm trying that now!
Regards,
Nick.
--
Nick Date
Bath, England, UK
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Andrew P.
> Sent: 24 October 2005 15:32
> To: Nick J. Date
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Open Sound System on FreeBSD 6 RC1
>
>
> On 10/24/05, Andrew P. <infofarmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/24/05, Nick J. Date <nick.date at ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
> > > Hiya!
> > >
> > > I've just "upgraded" my FreeBSD installation from 5.4-RELEASE to
> > > 6.0-RC1. With 5.4 I learnt that my sound card (SoundBlaster Live!
> > > 24-bit) wasn't supported by the drivers that come with
> FreeBSD, so I
> > > was using the free version of the Open Sound System
> > > (www.opensound.com) drivers.
> > >
> > > On installing 6.0-RC1, I didn't want to take any chances so I
> > > downloaded the OSS drivers again (selecting 6.0-RC1 as my
> operating
> > > system this time). The installation and sound tests
> completed fine
> > > and I could hear music being played. However, although the driver
> > > now loads on startup, it doesn't load any sort of mixer
> support and
> > > the device /dev/mixer doesn't exist. Even attempting to
> load OSS's
> > > own mixer software reports that /dev/mixer is non-existant. A
> > > re-install doesn't help and I can't find any option in the set up
> > > program that might make the mixer work.
> > >
> > > Has anyone else had a similar problem, and if so does
> anyone know of
> > > a solution?
> > >
> > > Anyway, if anyone could give me a hand or point me in the right
> > > direction it would be highly appreciated.
> > >
> > > Kind regards,
> > >
> > > Nick.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Nick Date
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> > http://www.4front-tech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=560
> >
>
> Actually, apart from editing devfs.conf as per my
> advice in the topic, I've got a startup script,
> /root/oss.sh, containing these:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> /usr/local/lib/oss/bin/soundon
> /etc/rc.d/devfs restart
>
> and a line in /etc/crontab:
> @reboot root sleep 30 && /root/oss.sh
>
> I am thinking about writing a port, but still only
> thinking.
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