Sound?

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:
Code:
# 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.
 
I have no Idea what that is. dmesg - is obviously a type of message
d = desktop?
display?
dancing llamas?
 
runewake2 said:
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.
 
If pcm is anything like 0.13BAC

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(1) or fgrep(1) would do just as well . . .
 
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.
 
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?
 
snd_driver loads all soundcard drivers at once, so you may find this script useful.

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