Re: getting sound

On 30 Dec 2005, at 17:34, Mark Kane wrote:

eoghan wrote:
Hello
I have followed the manual page here for sound setup:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound- setup.html
Im using freebsd 6.0 with generic kernel. Im not sure what sound card
came with my dell (its 3 years old).
So i did:
#kldload snd_emu10k1
#kldload snd_driver
then:
#cat /dev/sndstat
FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
Installed devices:
pcm0: <AudioPCI ES1371-B> at io 0xec40 irq 11 kld snd_es137x(1p/1r/0v
channels duplex default)
This is my first time trying to get the sound working. I try play an
mp3 ans dont hear anything. Perhaps using the snd_driver wont work in
my case...
Is there a way to get freeBSD to show my sound device so I can load the
correct module? Or is there something else im doing wrong?
Thanks
Eoghan

It looks to me like the "snd_driver" did it (since it shows "snd_es127x"
loaded), but if you still are not getting any sound then check some
things.

1) The parts list you pasted seems like it's the Creative CT5807 sound
card. I don't see that particular model on the hardware supported list,
although similar models are listed under that driver (man snd_es137x).

2) Check the volume. Type "mixer" at a shell and make sure the levels
are up. The manpage for "mixer" should tell you how to change those
settings if you need to.

3) Are you running KDE or artsd? On one of my machines that I set sound
up on a long time ago everything was going fine (no errors, sndstat
showed it, etc) but KDE's artsd interfered with the volume when KDE was
on. So if you are in KDE then I'd say to stop the GUI and go to the
console where artsd won't be running and then do your testing. You can
also disable artsd but I'm not sure where as it's been a while since
I've used KDE.

4) Are your speakers/headphones/mixer volumes up?

-Mark


Thanks Mark
Im running KDE (3.4.3) and I have just gone into control center > sound & multimedia > sound system
Here I disabled the sound system and reneabled it, which it restarted the sound system. I then clicked the button to text sound.
Then I heard sound perfect. I then opened Noatun and tried to play an mp3 but heard nothing. I dont know about artsd, but is this the KDE sound system?
I tried the sound system disabled, restart Noatun but still nothing.
artsd at konsole says:
can't register Arts::MidiManager
There are already artsd objects registered, looking if they are active...

Error: Can't add object reference (probably artsd is already running).
If you are sure it is not already running, remove the relevant files:

       /tmp/mcop-root/Arts_SoundServerV2
       /tmp/mcop-root/Arts_SoundServer
       /tmp/mcop-root/Arts_SimpleSoundServer
       /tmp/mcop-root/Arts_PlayObjectFactory
       /tmp/mcop-root/Arts_AudioManager

So, sound works if I test in control centre. But no sound if i try play an mp3...
Thanks
Eoghan


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