Soundblaster Live! on FreeBSD 4.8?

[Viktor Lazlo]

On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 fireal at earthlink.net wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I am trying to find out how to get sound configured on my machine with
> FreeBSD 4.8 (or even 5.1) for that matter.  I have a Creative
> Soundblaster Live! card.  I added sound to the kernel, rebooted, and
> made the device(for 4.8).  I can see the card in dmesg, and even get a
> volume control (using KDE), but cannot play any sounds.  =E2=80=9Cfstat |=
 grep
> dsp=E2=80=9D shows artsd running.  But running or not, I have no sound.
>
> I have searched the various related lists, checked the handbook,
> google.com/bsd, etc, and can find no definite answer to my question.  I
> understand that SB Live isn=E2=80=99t supported, yet some people say that=
 have
> them set up and working, and that there is no reason they should not
> work in BSD.  I=E2=80=99m just wondering if there is anything that I can =
do,
> or are any resources to check into.

If it's showing up in dmesg and you have created the appropriate device it
is supported and should work.  Try running a console audio app like mpg321
or wavplay to confirm this is a soundcard issue and not a kde issue.

Cheers,

Viktor