Sound and KDE

[Trey Sizemore]

On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 17:17 -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> I have just recently completed a fresh install of FreeBSD 5.3. Upon 
> completion, I built a new 'kernel', which included a sound driver. 
> Everything seems to work correctly. Using 'cdcontrol', I can play an audio 
> disk without any problems.
> 
> Unfortunately, I cannot get sound to work in KDE. I have the latest 
> versions of 'xorg' and 'kde' loaded. When 'kde' loads, it displays this 
> error message:
> 
> Sound Server information message:
> Error while initializing the sound driver:
> Device /dev/dsp can't be opened (no such file or directory)
> The sound server will continue, using the null output device
> 
> I have no idea where to proceed from this point. When I had FreeBSD 5.2.1 
> installed, 'kde' worked fine. I formatted the HD prior to installing the 
> new version to minimize any latent errors from being introduced into the 
> new version. Therefore, nothing from the old version could be the cause of 
> this problem.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Gerard Seibert
> gerard-seibert at rcn.com


Have you tried:

# kldload snd_driver

I have a SoundBlaster Live! card, so I was more specific and used

# kldload snd_emu10k1

and added snd_emu10k1_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf, restarted the
machine, and now it works like a champ.  See 

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html

for more info.

HTH!