Hello,

I am trying to get sound working in FreeBSD. I read 9th chapter of FreeBSD handbook(https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/multimedia/). I have succesfully configured the sound card, it shows in dmesg | grep pcm and also in cat /dev/sndstat. however when I try to use beep command to test the speaker, it doesn’t work ( I can’t hear anything from the sound card).

  • whoareuOP
    1·
    5 days ago

    Yes, I tried doing that but it didn’t work. It’s something related to my sound card. FreeBSD detects my sound card but it couldn’t play sound for some reason.

    • zer0@lemm.ee
      2·
      4 days ago

      Did you put yourself in the group operator?
      Also check if the sound is not muted with mixer.
      I know it’s basic stuff but sometimes we forget about simple things.

      • whoareuOP
        1·
        4 days ago

        Did you put yourself in the group operator?

        no, but even when I did put my user into operator group it still doesn’t work.

        mixer command says the volume is 71%.

        I think something weird is going on since my sound card isn’t listed of the website but the kernel detects my sound card.

        • zer0@lemm.ee
          2·
          4 days ago

          I think something weird is going on since my sound card isn’t listed of the website but the kernel detects my sound card

          Yes it’s possible, it can be a “too fresh hardware” situation for FreeBSD, what is your device?