Q&A
| Q1: | FreeBSD doesn't support my sound card. What can I do? |
| A1: | All may not be lost. There is a third-party vendor that makes sound drivers for FreeBSD. You can check them out at www.opensound.com. These sound drivers support more cards than the native FreeBSD drivers. The drivers are not free, but the cost might be worth it if they are the only way you can get sound support working in FreeBSD. |
| Q2: | I have a SCSI CD burner. The burncd utility doesn't seem to work. |
| A2: | That's because SCSI drives need to use the cdrecord utility, not burncd. Install it from /usr/ports/sysutils/cdrtools; then, refer to the man cdrecord page for details on using it, or refer back to Hour 8 when we discussed it in the context of storage systems. |
| Q3: | MPEG video files don't ... |
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