questions regarding sound driver

[Lowell Gilbert]

ALIAS <liuyang99 at earthlink.net> writes:

> i can't seem to get my sound to work, i've installed freebsd and got it 
> working before but don't remember how and everytime i try to open up a mpeg 
> file it says 
> 
> Sound server informational message:
> 
> Error while initializing the sound driver:
> device /dev/dsp can't be opened  (Device not configured)
> 
> The sound server will continue, using the null output device.
> 
> i've added the device pcm to my kernel and i've configured the 
> /boot/loader.conf and added snd_pcm_load="YES" and used kldload snd_pcm.ko 
> and the error message is still coming up can someone help me? i have a sound 
> blaster sound card.

Have you built the sound devices?
[Or on 5.x, are they creating themselves?]