Yeah, it's been fixed, and i know all about that stuff. I had the right module loaded, but it was weird with freebsd 5.3. I was loading the module directly in the kernel which wasn't working. It ended up working with a kldload from the command line, and after loading the snd driver in the kernel and adding the driver for the ess maestro 3 card into kldload.conf? or something or other like that in /boot, everything works great.
I recently installed kde on freebsd 5.3 stable. Everything works like a charm except i can only play sound using the cdplayer. If i rip a cd to my computer and play it, nothing. No system sounds, no beeps/clicks/etc from my speakers unless i run cdplayer. I've been in the sound manager using different /dev/* devices for sound, but either get a busy, or other sort of error, then says "KDE will go back to using null output device." i had gnome installed and that picked up the sound perfectly, i wo...
