Re: sound not working despite sis7012 ac97 hardware valid for openbsd 3.6

[Avery Tarasov <coldshadow_(_at_)_poolghost_(_dot_)_com>]

thanks for the continued support everyone

here is the output i get for ls -l /dev/mixer*

lrwx-xr-x 1 root wheel 11 Nov 15 16:99 /dev/mixer -> /dev/mixer0
crw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 30, 0 Nov 15 16:99 /dev/mixer0

what should my next steps be? thanks a ton everyone for the help.
--avery

Chris Kuethe wrote:
> what does /dev/mixer look like? On my laptop:
>
> # ls -l /dev/mixer*
> lrwx------  1 root  wheel         6 Feb  8  2004 /dev/mixer@ -> mixer0
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel   42,  16 Nov  6 23:54 /dev/mixer0
>
> You may need to remake your mixer devices with MAKEDEV ...
>
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 05:38:47 -0500, Avery Tarasov
> <coldshadow_(_at_)_poolghost_(_dot_)_com> wrote:
>
> > Bernhard Leiner wrote:
> >
> > > Avery Tarasov wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > hey everyone,this is my first ever post to a e-mail list thing. i
> > > > recently installed openbsd 3.6 on my sony vaio laptop, pcg-grt100p. it
> > > > has sis7012 ac97 sound which should be valid for openbsd 3.6. for some
> > > > reason the sound is not working though even though it is suppost to
> > > > work. i have tested two zsnes games and the sound fails in both of
> > > > them. also i have tried using mpg123 to play an mp3 which also failed.
> > >
> > >
> > > How did it fail? If you just can't hear anything you might have a look
> > > at mixerctl(1).
> > > try "mixerctl -a" and check if something is muted.
> > >
> > > br,
> > >    bernhard
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > .
> >
> > hey,thanks for the response. i already tried mixerctl -a. mixerctl
> > <anything> yields an error. mixerctl: /dev/mixer: Operation not
> > supported by device. i have no clue what to do next, please advise.
> >
> > --avery