On Thu, June 1, 2006 12:31 pm, Max von Seibold wrote: > Sorry for a somewhat open question here. I have just installed > Dragonfly on my machine and am considering which directions to take > with sound.
> Can anyone tell me which sound server they would recommend (I saw > JACK in the pkgsrc list) and have heard good things about it. However > im somewhat daunted about getting ALSA to work... ALSA == Advanced Linux Sound Architecture. ie: it's not available on anything but Linux. :) Getting sound working on BSD is much simpler. Just load the kernel module for all the sound drivers, run "cat /dev/sndstat" to see if the kernel detected your sound chipset, then add a line to /boot/loader.conf to autoload that kernel module at boot. I do not remember what the kernel module name is to load all the sound drivers on FreeBSD4/DFlyBSD, though. I think it's just snd (kldload snd; cat /dev/sndstat). Anyway, read through the snd(4) man page, and all the man pages referenced by it. Getting sound working on BSD is easy, if the chipset is supported. :) ---- Freddie Cash, LPCI-1 CCNT CCLP Helpdesk / Network Support Tech. School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357] [EMAIL PROTECTED]