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]"
