On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 06:20:07AM -0500, Stan Gammons wrote: > > Ok. Let's start over. When the system starts it doesn't automatically start > KDE. When I login I'm able to get the sound to play noise with cat > /dev/urandom > /dev/audio. Audioctl and mixerctl both display the various > settings when I run them. When I run startkde4, the sound icon is in the > lower right on the screen, the volume control slider is present and the > notification sounds play. But, there is no audio device shown in kmix and > when I click on the drop down to select the audio device, it's empty. As I > said before, I don't have this problem with FreeBSD. So, if the azalia > driver is the same, why do I have this problem on OpenBSD?
FWIW, neither the azalia driver, nor the audio API are the same in freebsd and openbsd. If openbsd native tools work, but kmix doesn't, most probably openbsd-specific bits in kmix are incomplete (kmix itself or whatever audio framework it uses). If you don't have multiple audio cards and you don't need to switch between them, you don't have to worry, just ignore kmix. Audio is supposed to somewhat work by default in audio programs fully ported to openbsd.
