My lack of a "sound' understanding

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 04:47:37 -0800
J <> wrote:

> Okay, I am a complete noob, so have patience. I don't know all the
> proper nomenclature as of yet.
> 
> I installed, then reinstalled and re-reinstalled 5.1 on a dell gx1
> with the crystal sound chip with little
> difficulty up until I went to do the file sharing experience with
> Samba and the sound thing. For now I just want to get this sound
> problem understood. Now according to the manual in order to load the
> sound device I can either kldload or configure a kernal. I
> understand this. What I don't understand are two things at least,
> when I kldload, exactly where do I need to be to do this? 

Note: I don't no your card, so I might not guessed the right driver
but the theory ins Ok.

If you want to happen at each boot put something like
snd_csa_load="YES"
in /boot/loader.conf

> In what
> directory? I mean, when I bring up a terminal and punch in kldload
> snd,or snd0 it says "can't load snd, no such file or directory". I

snd_pcm perhaps ?

see man pcm and man csa.



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