7.2 = no sound

Lars Hecking lhecking at users.sourceforge.net
Thu May 7 11:17:45 UTC 2009


 I upgraded my system to 7.2 with cvsup, and sound has stopped working. I'm
 running gnome, and both

 esound-0.2.41       A sound library for enlightenment package
 pulseaudio-0.9.14_5 Sound server for UNIX

 are installed.

 Both esd and pulseaudio are running

root        1182  0.0  0.1  3372  1140 con- I    10:37PM   0:00.01 /usr/local/bin/esd
user    1508  0.0  0.3 78224  5804  ??  Is   11:09PM   0:00.26 /usr/local/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
user    1509  0.0  0.2 10772  4892  ??  I    11:09PM   0:00.01 /usr/local/libexec/pulse/gconf-helper

 which doesn't seem right to me, but turning off esd does not help, and I don't
 know how to turn off pulseaudio.

 So I went through
  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/sound-setup.html

 Sound module loaded: yes

# kldstat |grep snd
 4    1 0xc09d6000 1abf8    snd_hda.ko

# cat /dev/sndstat 
FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2007061600/i386)
Installed devices:
pcm0: <HDA Sigmatel STAC9205X PCM #0 Analog> at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0 kld snd_hda [MPSAFE] (1p:3v/1r:1v channels duplex default)
pcm1: <HDA Sigmatel STAC9205X PCM #1 Analog> at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0 kld snd_hda [MPSAFE] (0p:0v/1r:1v channels)

 dmesg:

pcm0: <HDA Sigmatel STAC9205X PCM #0 Analog> at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0
pcm1: <HDA Sigmatel STAC9205X PCM #1 Analog> at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0

 However, I have no /dev/dsp:

# ll /dev/dsp*
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel    0, 115 May  6 22:37 /dev/dsp0.0
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel    0, 117 May  6 22:37 /dev/dsp0.1
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel    0, 118 May  6 23:16 /dev/dsp0.2
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel    0, 119 May  6 23:21 /dev/dsp0.3
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel    0, 120 May  6 23:21 /dev/dsp0.4
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel    0, 116 May  6 22:37 /dev/dsp1.0

# fstat |grep dsp
root     esd         1182    5 /dev        115 crw-rw-rw-  dsp0.0  w

 Where do I go from here?




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