Re: Video and Sound on FreeBSD 15/Stable

Best to add these commands where, in /boot/loader.conf, or /etc/rc.conf?
And to be clear, do I need to physically add root and any other user to the
_sndio group as well?  Thank you.

On Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> wrote:

> On 11/12/2025 13:24, Jeff Lloyd wrote:
> > So not sure what to do from here. installed the sndio package.  Should I
> > create a new user group '_sndio' (it does not currently exist for me or
> > root) and add root and any other user on the system?  Thanks for looking.
> >
> > Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
> > [1/1] Installing sndio-1.10.0_1...
> > ===> Creating groups
> > Using existing group '_sndio'
> > ===> Creating users
> > Using existing user '_sndio'
> > [1/1] Extracting sndio-1.10.0_1: 100%
> > root@freebsd15:/home/jbl # groups
> > wheel operator
> > root@freebsd15:/home/jbl # exit
> > jbl@freebsd15:~ $ groups
> > wheel jbl
> > jbl@freebsd15:~ $
>
> The group _sndio was created by the installation of the package. You can
> check it by grep
>
> % grep _snd /etc/group
> _sndio:*:702:
>
> or pw
>
> % pw groupshow _sndio
> _sndio:*:702:
>
> The user nad group is used by sndio daemon.
>
> You should enable the service and start the service.
>
>     service sndiod enable
>     service sndiod start
>
> Kind regards
> Miroslav Lachman
>
>