please guide me

[Simon Barner]

> i have problem.i recently working working with gnome at freebsd 5.0.
> when i write startx command i occure with this message : couldnot
> open mixer device /dev/sound/mixer.
> my sound card is onboard AC97

Is your sound card recognized by the kernel: To test it, have a look at
the output of

% dmesg | grep pcm

If that yields nothing, you have load the pcm module:

# kldload pcm

If that didn't work, you will have to tell us more about your chipset.
Otherwise, you can now test your mixer device on the command line before
trying Gnome again:

% mixer

prints your current volume settings.

Simon
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