My lack of a "sound' understanding

From: J (no email)
Date: 10/30/03

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    Okay, I am a complete noob, so have patience. I don't know all the proper
    nomenclature as of yet.

    I installed, then reinstalled and re-reinstalled 5.1 on a dell gx1 with
    the crystal sound chip with little
    difficulty up until I went to do the file sharing experience with Samba
    and the sound thing. For now I just want to get this sound problem
    understood. Now according to the manual in order to load the sound device
    I can either kldload or configure a kernal. I understand this. What I
    don't understand are two things at least, when I kldload, exactly where do
    I need to be to do this? In what directory? I mean, when I bring up a
    terminal and punch in kldload snd,or snd0 it says "can't load snd, no such
    file or directory". I did install the src/sys files. I understand that 5.x
    is somewhat different than the other distros which I interpret to mean
    that this should be somewhat friendlier.

    The other thing I seem to get conflicting messages about is if I can
    actually just add the "device pcm" bsd/docs 16.2 to the existing kernal or
    do I have to totally rebuild it? Or is this one in the same?

    I don't mind reading the manual, it just seems as if I am overlooking
    something essential. So maybe if you can help me find the basics I am
    missing?

    Thanks

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