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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.primenet.com!bkogawa From: bkogawa@primenet.com (Bryan Ogawa) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: OSS problems Date: 1 Jun 1997 04:02:03 -0700 Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet Lines: 67 Message-ID: <5mrkrb$oj5@nntp02.primenet.com> References: <5mr21b$k34@camel3.mindspring.com> X-Posted-By: bkogawa@206.165.5.101 (bkogawa) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41986 myers@iname.com (David Myers) writes: >Having never gotten the Voxware sound drivers to work with my generic >SoundBlaster compatible board, I decided to give the 4Front folks a chance >and installed OSS. Everything appears to be fine: the software recognizes >my sound board, installs correctly, 'soundon' appears to run fine. >However, I still can't play any sound files. Every time I try, I get the >message: >/dev/dsp: Device not configured. >I get this when manually 'cat'ing files, as well as when I run the included >sample programs. All the Voxware drivers have been removed from my kernel. >The only audio device is pca0. >Here's the output from /dev/sndstat: >/usr/lib/oss >cat /dev/sndstat >OSS/FreeBSD 3.8b (C) 4Front Technologies 1997 >License serial number: E00000008 >This product is licensed for evaluation purposes only. >License will expire after: 07/1997 >*** Activity time of this evaluation run is limited to 10 minutes *** >Kernel: FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE #0: Sat May 31 22:10:36 GMT 1997 > myers@freebsd.mindspring.com:/usr/src/sys2.2.2/compile/dcm2.2 >Card config: >(Sound Blaster at 0x220 irq 5 drq 0) >(SB MPU-401 at 0x330 irq 7) >(OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388) >Audio devices: >Synth devices: >Midi devices: >Timers: >0: System clock >Mixers: >What am I missing? You seem to be missing a fair number of major drivers. I could be wrong, but I think you need: Audio Devices for /dev/dsp and /dev/audio to work. Synth Devices for /dev/sequencer to work. Midi Devices if you have a MIDI hookup on your card. I have devices listed under all three of the categories above, in addition to the card configuration. I'm not sure why these didn't get configured. You might want to try removing your card, then adding it manually. Also, if you know the specific make of your card, try using that directly, instead of the generic SB stuff. -- bryan k. ogawa <bkogawa@primenet.com> <bkogawa@netvoyage.net>