On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Polytropon <free...@edvax.de> wrote: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:53:41 -0500, Antonio Olivares > <olivares14...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Apparently it works, but I put in some small speakers, but could not >> get music to play. > > On some machines, speakers do not activate automatically, > they need a "driver" that switches the connector to active. > Also check mixer settings. ALWAYS check them. :-) > > > >> Installed mplayer from within ports, >> # cd /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer >> # make install clean >> and tried to play some mp3's and got a codec error :(, since machine >> is 64 bit installing codecs from mplayer site does not work :(, and >> linux compatibility is not installed. > > Use command line tools like madplay or mpg123 for testing. > Also consider using xmms as a versatile MP3 (and OGG/Vorbis) > media player. > Mplayer played some ogg files that I had correctly and sound is working :)
snd_hda did the trick :) > > >> Sorry for drifting out of >> original sound problem, but I also tried to play a dvd and it failed >> to load since atapi cam was not in /boot/loader.conf because cd/dvd >> drive is old style(not SATA) This is now working correctly :), added the command in /boot/loader.conf > That doesn't matter. I have parallel ATA devices here that > play nicely with ATAPICAM (mainly in use for CD and DVD > recording). But you shouldn't need to have ATAPICAM in order > to play DVDs. I know that mplayer has a configuration option > for that... maybe it's sufficient to link /dev/acd0 to /dev/dvd link exists /dev/dvd -> /dev/acd0 but dvd does not play :( > (per /etc/devfs.conf) to provide the default location, or > use -dvd-device <dev> to name it on the command line. Also > make sure you have the required codecs installed. Since the machine is 64 bit having the codecs does no good :(, I ran the configuration and tried to install Realplayer which tried to pull linux compatibility which I did not want and reran config. > Going > through "make config" in mplayer (or mencoder) is always > a good choice. > However, playing dvd's does not seem to work :( I try to run $ mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/acd0 and it complains about not finding some vob Sorry for not posting exact error will do so tomorrow as soon as I can. > > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > Thanks to all folks who have advised me. I am close to setting up the system to my liking. Regards, Antonio _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"