Enabling sound?

Rich Demanowski richd at RichDPhoto.com
Fri Jul 21 22:02:30 UTC 2006


I just dropped a SoundBlaster Live! card into my box, and have followed 
the directions in the handbook and the man pages.

The following lines are in the compiled kernel:
    device sound
    device snd_emu10k1

I don't get the pcm0 lines that section 7.2.2 in the manual talks 
about.  cat /dev/sndstat returns:
    FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
    Installed devices:
and nothing else.

kldload snd_emu10k1 yields no output whatsoever.  When followed by cat 
/dev/sndstat it produces the same outputs as above.
  
kld_load snd_driver yields:
    ppc0: parallel port not found.
    sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0x20
    sio1: port may not be enabled   
    ppc0: parallel port not found.
    sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
    sio1: port may not be enabled
    ppc0: parallel port not found.
    sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
    sio1: port may not be enabled
    ppc0: parallel port not found.
    sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
    sio1: port may not be enabled
    ppc0: parallel port not found.
    sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
    sio1: port may not be enabled   
    ppc0: parallel port not found.
    sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
    sio1: port may not be enabled
    ppc0: parallel port not found.
    sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
    sio1: port may not be enabled

I recompiled with the sound and emu10k1 drivers commented out, and the 
kldload and cat /dev/sndstat commands still yield the same.

I need to get sound enabled on this box, so I can do some online 
training provided through streaming video.  Please, please, please tell 
me I don't have to break down and install wankers on this thing ...
  



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