From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 12 16:57:28 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F3631065676 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:57:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl (smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl [213.51.146.201]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23FFA8FC12 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:57:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from [213.51.146.188] (port=42440 helo=smtp3.tilbu1.nb.home.nl) by smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K6pJD-0004z7-Uf; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:05:55 +0200 Received: from cp268254-a.landg1.lb.home.nl ([84.25.65.88]:4925 helo=ra.egypt.nl) by smtp3.tilbu1.nb.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K6pJC-0001rH-T9; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:05:55 +0200 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (xp.egypt.nl [192.168.13.35]) by ra.egypt.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1358039885; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:05:54 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <48514961.5020402@boosten.org> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:05:53 +0200 From: Peter Boosten User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joey Mingrone References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080612-0, 06/12/2008), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Score: -0.0 (/) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sound card X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:57:28 -0000 Joey Mingrone wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to determine what sound card a notebook has. There are > three relevant dmesg lines below, but looking at freebsd's hardware > notes, I can't tell whether I should use the snd_ich(4) driver for an > Intel ICH4 card, the snd_hda(4) driver for an 82801 card or a sigmatel > card. Any suggestions? > > > %cat /var/run/dmesg.boot| grep pcm > pcm0: port 0xee00-0xeeff,0xe000-0xe03f mem > 0xffaff800-0xffaff9ff,0xffaff400-0xffaff4ff irq 4 at device 31.5 on > pci0 > pcm0: [ITHREAD] > pcm0: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html Especially: If you are not sure which driver to use, you may try to load the snd_driver module: # kldload snd_driver This is a metadriver loading the most common device drivers at once. This speeds up the search for the correct driver. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org