Catherine Heathcote ([info]lavandergirl) wrote in [info]freebsd_users,
@ 2005-02-25 10:04:00
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I have just installed FreeBSD onto my laptop with the minimal CD and an FTP install, and all is going very nicely, I am rather impressed. It will be a whill until I get it to just how I want it, but theirs nothing I can't do really.

Except I can't figure out sound. The tutorials I have seen for it use a "device" command, which I dont seem to have :(
Oh and how do I change keymaps in XFCE/X

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[info]ahze
2005-02-25 10:57 am UTC (link)
Did you see http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/multimedia.html

What chipset is your sound card? That will help find the drive you need.

you can always 'kldload /boot/kernel/snd_*' to find the module you need.

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[info]quelrod
2005-02-26 01:04 am UTC (link)
That's no longer true as of 5.3. You can actually use one of the precompiled kernel modules.

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[info]pauamma
2005-02-25 11:06 am UTC (link)
For information on sound and FreeBSD, see:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/multimedia.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html

For information on the device command and kernel configuration in general, see:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html

For information on keyboard mapping under X, and assuming you're using XFree86 4.4.x, not X.org, see the XF86Config(5), xf86cfg(1), and xf86config(1) man pages.

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[info]danh
2005-03-20 02:51 am UTC (link)
I hope you installed FreeBSD-5 and not FreeBSD-4.

in FreeBSD-5, put

snd_driver_load="YES" # All sound drivers

in

/boot/loader.conf

later you can figure out which sound driver you actuallyneed
instead of loading all of them.


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