Re: getting sound in KDE
eoghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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... Okay, so you have FreeBSD's sound drivers working fine, and you just need to get KDE to use it properly. I don't know anything about KDE, but enabling virtual channels may make life easier. See the manual for sound(4) for details. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: getting sound in KDE
On 30 Dec 2005, at 18:35, Roshan wrote: Thanks again Ive since tried okle (for a dvd) and KsCD with an audio cd and both work perfect. I will check around for a different mp3 player and see if it works. But Im getting there :) Thanks for the help Eoghan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you play an mp3 using a non-kde app, like mplayer or mpg123 , it will not play in my experience. artsd monopolises the sound device. what you have to do is kill the artsd, then you can play mp3's using mplayer or xmms or mpg123. command to kill artsd: # killall artsd then try playing your mp3 I tried that and Noatun still doesnt play the mp3. But before i did the killall i tried kaboodle (which is a kde app is assume?), and it played fine. Thanks to everyone who has helped. At least now i can hear freebsd :) Regards Eoghan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
noob sound freebsd KDE
ok i have an audigy platimun and i added snd_emu10k1_load=YES or what ever the hand book said to add for the sound blaster live...they said the emu10k1 driver should worki get a sound byte when i load kde, then it cuts out, and i dont have any sound after that...any ideas? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: noob sound freebsd KDE
Check kmix and see if the volume is up. Ada On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok i have an audigy platimun and i added snd_emu10k1_load=YES or what ever the hand book said to add for the sound blaster live...they said the emu10k1 driver should worki get a sound byte when i load kde, then it cuts out,and i dont have any sound after that...any ideas? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sound and KDE
I have just recently completed a fresh install of FreeBSD 5.3. Upon completion, I built a new 'kernel', which included a sound driver. Everything seems to work correctly. Using 'cdcontrol', I can play an audio disk without any problems. Unfortunately, I cannot get sound to work in KDE. I have the latest versions of 'xorg' and 'kde' loaded. When 'kde' loads, it displays this error message: Sound Server information message: Error while initializing the sound driver: Device /dev/dsp can't be opened (no such file or directory) The sound server will continue, using the null output device I have no idea where to proceed from this point. When I had FreeBSD 5.2.1 installed, 'kde' worked fine. I formatted the HD prior to installing the new version to minimize any latent errors from being introduced into the new version. Therefore, nothing from the old version could be the cause of this problem. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks! Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can't help the poor man by destroying the rich. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound and KDE
On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 17:17 -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: I have just recently completed a fresh install of FreeBSD 5.3. Upon completion, I built a new 'kernel', which included a sound driver. Everything seems to work correctly. Using 'cdcontrol', I can play an audio disk without any problems. Unfortunately, I cannot get sound to work in KDE. I have the latest versions of 'xorg' and 'kde' loaded. When 'kde' loads, it displays this error message: Sound Server information message: Error while initializing the sound driver: Device /dev/dsp can't be opened (no such file or directory) The sound server will continue, using the null output device I have no idea where to proceed from this point. When I had FreeBSD 5.2.1 installed, 'kde' worked fine. I formatted the HD prior to installing the new version to minimize any latent errors from being introduced into the new version. Therefore, nothing from the old version could be the cause of this problem. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks! Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you tried: # kldload snd_driver I have a SoundBlaster Live! card, so I was more specific and used # kldload snd_emu10k1 and added snd_emu10k1_load=YES to /boot/loader.conf, restarted the machine, and now it works like a champ. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html for more info. HTH! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting sound in KDE
Jacob Rieper wrote: I am having trouble getting my soundcard to work in 5.1 stable. It didn't automatically detect the Soundblaster Live card so I added it to the kernel with kldload snd_emu10k1.ko and rebooted. It then shows up under pcm0 like this pcm0: Creative EMU10K1 port 0xd400-0xd41f irq 11 at device 1.0 on pci2 pcm0: Cirrus Logic CS4297A AC97 Codec Looking through usenet, it seems I should run MAKEDEV snd0 or something in /dev to create the mixer and stuff. However, MAKEDEV has been removed from 5.1. Help! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you tried the official instructions on http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html ? You'll see that FreeBSD 5.0 and later do not need to use MAKEDEV, because devfs(5) automatically creates device nodes. I don't know if this helps you much further, but now you know you don't have to worry about MAKEDEV. Regards, Rick Hoppe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
