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Monday, February 21st 2005, 6:32pm

Only Cd player has sound

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 would rather use kde though, if i can figure out what's going on.

I'm not a newbie to freebsd but this is my first shot at x-11 and KDE so i'm still learning my way around, let me know of any config files i need to post.

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Tuesday, March 15th 2005, 8:48am

Check the kcontrol page for multimedia settings, perhaps there is something wrong. also, are you using kscd to play your cds, or which app?
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Tuesday, March 15th 2005, 1:33pm

RE: Only Cd player has sound

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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.


CD audio is played via an analog input to the sound card. This input is a wire that goes from the back of the cd-rom drive to the soundcard. Many cd-rom's can actually play music cd's without the OS even being aware that anything is going on. The ability to play cd's has nothing to do with your OS's sound setup.

You should check to make sure that the correct module is loaded into your kernel, or compiled in.

Try a live-cd (knoppix, etc) that gets your sound working, then run lsmod from a shell. Take a look and see what modules are loaded that would seem related to your sound card. Also try running lspci and look for your soundcard, that should let you know what your system thinks your soundcard is.

Then reboot back to your own install, and try to modprobe module_name.

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Tuesday, March 15th 2005, 3:31pm

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.