Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 21:21:54 +1100 From: Mark Sergeant <msergeant@looksmart.net> To: 'Chris Hill ' <chris@monochrome.org>, 'Odhiambo Washington ' <wash@iconnect.co.ke> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG '" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, Mark Sergeant <msergeant@looksmart.net> Subject: RE: How to find out audio chipset in a laptop ? Message-ID: <3C8921B0FD79D4119A4F00D0B75AC88B2130D6@bulla.looksmart.com.au>
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I did the manufacturers site, called them and no one could tell me anything more than it is a AC97 compatible chip. It turns out it is a intel 810 on board audio chip. I found this out by posting the relative part of my dmesg output to the freebsd-hackers & questions groups, I got a reply back stating what it was and that the driver code had been sent in to the relevant person to be committed. In the meantime I downloaded a demo driver from... http://www.opensound.com which does work but only for 3 hours @ a time and it has issues of irq sharing which I am unable to disable in the bios. Thanks for the help guys. Cheers, Mark -----Original Message----- From: Chris Hill To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; msergeant@looksmart.net Sent: 3/24/01 4:15 AM Subject: Re: How to find out audio chipset in a laptop ? On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > * Mark Sergeant <msergeant@looksmart.net> [20010323 09:38]: writing on > the subject 'How to find out audio chipset in a laptop ?' > Mark> I feel stupid for asking this, but I have been searching > Mark> the web for a couple of days to find out the exact audio chip in > Mark> my laptop (Sharp PC AX20). > What I'd normally do in a case like this is to go to the Manufacturer's > website, locate the model and try to see if they have support, as in they > can let you download drivers. They'll say your model uses some sound > chipset on that site. If the manufacturer wound up his business, then too > bad. Good call. One other thing that sometimes works for me: use your favorite search engine to search on the equipment's "FCC ID" number. This is usually found near the serial number, or next to the agency approval logos (CE, TUV, CSA et al). The only caveat is that if the device was not intended ever to be sold in North America, it may not have an FCC number. HTH. -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy expunging <-> ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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