Re: no /dev/dsp.x

From: T Kellers <kellers_at_njit.edu>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 13:54:34 -0500
On Saturday 29 November 2003 08:32 pm, Mathew Kanner wrote:
>On Nov 29, T Kellers wrote:
>> On Friday 28 November 2003 11:41 pm, T Kellers wrote:
>>
>> After fighting with the laptop for about an hour this morning before
>> class, I decided to wipe out the FreeBSD slice and start over with
>> 5.1-RELEASE.  After that install and subsequent kernel build/install with
>> device pcm, not only didn't I have any pcm line in my dmesg, but I didn't
>> have any snd_maestro3.ko entries in /boot/kernel.  Just to make sure I
>> wasn't dealing with a dead maestro3, I booted into XP and, sure enough,
>> the sound worked.
>>
>> I nuked /usr/src and /usr/obj, cvsupped the sources and the buildworld &&
>> buildkernel && installkernel is proceeding as I type this.  If this
>> doesn't work --and confidence is low-- I'm pretty near stumped.  There is
>> no difference in hardware (or BIOS settings) from the identical laptop
>> running 4.9-STABLE.
>>
>> Ideas, suggesstions, rants  welcome.
>
>	Maybe you should try 5.2-BETA?
>	Also, don't include device pcm in your kernel unless you have
>specific reason to, kld's should work fine.  I don't recall seeing a
>dmesg or a cat /dev/sndstat in any of your posts, you should include
>them.  Maybe even your loader.conf.
>
>	--mat

I'm overjoyed to report that deleting pcm from my kernel and loading 
snd_maestro3.ko and snd_pcm.ko via loader.conf fixed the sound on my Dell 
C600 laptop running 5.2-BETA  11/29/2003

Thanks to you all for your help.

Tim Kellers
CPE/NJIT
Received on Thu Dec 04 2003 - 09:55:37 UTC

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