Enabling sound?

[Rich Demanowski]

Derrick Ryalls wrote:
> On 7/21/06, Rich Demanowski <richd at richdphoto.com> wrote:
>> 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 ...
>>
>
> I would try this:
>
> kldload snd_driver
>
> then cat /dev/sndstat to see if perhaps a different driver is needed.
I tried that.  That's what got me all the ppc0 and sio1 errors.