> On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Chuck Grimes wrote:
>
> > since I don't even have a sound card installed. In fact,
> > looking through the freebsd docs tonight, I couldn't tell
> > what interface (/dev) to use for an old Creative Labs
> > soundblaster card (SB 16)--any suggestions?
>
> Well the sb interface isn't in the GENERIC kernel so you'll have
> to build a kernel with support in it before you go looking for
> the device (man sb). After rebooting 'dmesg' should show a
> device at sb0. I think I've got an sb-16 in a drawer at work
> that I can throw into a test box when I get there and see what
> it does.
>
If you're running a more recent FreeBSD (I think from at least 3.something onwards, certainly any 4.X) you can use the pcm stuff, which means you don't need a specific sb driver.
If you need help setting this up, drop me an email...
Peter -- Peter van Heusden <pvh at egenetics.com> NOTE: I do not speak for my employer, Electric Genetics "Criticism has torn up the imaginary flowers from the chain not so that man shall wear the unadorned, bleak chain but so that he will shake off the chain and pluck the living flower." - Karl Marx, 1844