On 12 March 2011 08:34, Bruce Cran <br...@cran.org.uk> wrote: > On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:29:44 -0500 > Brian Waters <brianmwat...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> It seems to me that under /dev, you can have the following >> sound-related device files: >> >> dspX >> dspX.Y >> (among others) >> >> I'm having some trouble getting my sound to work (Dell Inspiron >> E1705/Inspiron 9400 with Sigmatel STAC9220 codec). I've read the >> manpages for snd and snd_hda (which is the appropriate driver), and >> increased the verbosity of the drivers and read the kernel log and >> /dev/sndstat, but I still can't quite wrap my head around everything. > > If the driver appears to load, then /dev/dsp should be created > automatically when something tries to access it (e.g. cat /dev/random >> /dev/dsp). >
An important point that I had trouble with recently; the dsp* files don't appear until they are read/written to! Chris _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
