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runewake2
May 8th, 2009, 01:46
So I installed FreeBSD a whole two weeks ago and can say that I am completly lost. After some foolign around I got Gnome to work and am running that. Soon after I got my USB drives to work however whenever I play movies no sound is outputted. This according to the speaker with an X threw it says that I do not have the GStreamer plugisn running... What does this mean. I attempted to follow the command in the "Setting Up your Sound Card" manual page and all that did was freeze the computer.
I do not know what my sound card is since the computer is nearly 15 years old So I used the:
# kldload snd_driver
Command...

My computer has 256mb of Ram and a slow processor. I don't know it's specks. All I want is to hear stuff. That seems to be my only problem.
LateNiteTV
May 8th, 2009, 01:55
can we see your dmesg?
runewake2
May 8th, 2009, 04:04
I have no Idea what that is. dmesg - is obviously a type of message
d = desktop?
display?
dancing llamas?
Oko
May 8th, 2009, 04:22
I have no Idea what that is. dmesg - is obviously a type of message
d = desktop?
display?
dancing llamas?

I do not want to sound rude but you are really wasting yours and our time here.
fronclynne
May 8th, 2009, 05:40
Don't be too mean.

To the OP, what is the output of
cat /dev/sndstat
, eh?
Also, the output of
dmesg -a | grep pcm
, (also) eh?


I suppose egrep or fgrep would do just as well . . .
runewake2
May 8th, 2009, 23:55
cat /dev/sndstat:
No such directory exists...

When I typed "dmesg -a | grep pcm" it just left a blank line.
When I tried using an enter as '|' I got a huge number of error messages.
FBSDin20Steps
May 9th, 2009, 00:19
Try this...

Open a terminal and run this command:

dmesg >dmesg.txt

What's the output?
runewake2
May 9th, 2009, 03:37
Output: 150 lines of text...

Exert:
PCM0: <PS/2 Mouse>
PCM0: <GIANT LOCKED>
PCM0: <ITHREAD>
PCM0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0

What Exactly am I looking for?
FBSDin20Steps
May 9th, 2009, 05:57
The guys are trying to help you with your sound problem...

Check this out.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/sound-setup.html
Read...edit some files...throw out a few commands and listen to music!
Beastie
May 9th, 2009, 09:39
snd_driver loads all soundcard drivers at once, so you may find this script (http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=290) useful.

And don't do this from GNOME as it has a big memory footprint and you only have 256MB.