/dev/mixer missing on 5.2-CURRENT?

[Steve Kargl]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:53:39AM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote:
> Doug White wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Eric Anderson wrote:
> >
> >>I'm pretty sure I'm being an idiot here, but /dev/mixer existed in the
> >>past, but it seems to be missing now.
> >>   
> >
> >It was on my system yesterday.  'cat /dev/sndstat' output?
> >
> Argh:
> FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
> Installed devices:
> 
> Looks like I missed something..
> 
> kldstat:
> Id Refs Address    Size     Name
> 13    1 0xc36b0000 19000    snd_pcm.ko
> 
> Ok - forgot to mention, that I mostly had run pcm from kernel before, 
> not modules, so I'm probably missing a module..  Am I?
> 

Yes.

troutmask:kargl[201] kldstat
Id Refs Address    Size     Name
 3    2 0xc0716000 1ebc8    snd_pcm.ko  <-- PCM audio device infrastructure
 4    1 0xc0735000 b8d0     snd_ds1.ko  <-- Driver for Yamaha DS-1.

You need to load a device specific driver.  Look in /boot/kernel/

-- 
Steve