Finding the Right Sound Driver ...

From: Siavash EDRISI (siavash_at_edrisi.com)
Date: 10/26/04

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    Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:50:54 +0200
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    Hi!

    I have been reading the text "Setting Up the Sound Card" at

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

    in order to find and install the right driver for the sound card in my i386. The
    hardware is an ESS 1869 PCI. Before I had WinXP installed on this hardware and
    it reported that the location of the card is: PCI slot 3 (PCI bus 0, device 14,
    function 0)

    I did whatever is described in the section 7.2.1 of the manual:

    1- I checked the entries in "/boot/defaults/loader.conf". The right line was
      snd_sbc_load="NO"
    I imagine this means that the driver is already somewhere on the harddisk!

    2- Then I inserted the following line into /boot/loader.conf
      snd_sbc_load="YES"

    3- I booted the system.

    Right after calling "startx" and entering KDE I got (as usual) the error message
    that the sound server could not find the file /dev/dsp.

    As I read in the manual configuring a custom kernel with sound support is just a
    second method and can be used alternatively. So I am not sure if I really have
    to do something in the kernel or not, since the first efforts did not help!

    Could someone please tell me what I still have to do? I would of course be very
    thankful for more precise advices.

    Thanks in advance
    Sia
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