From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 18 21:37:19 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20A6516A418 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:37:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (66-230-99-27-cdsl-rb1.nwc.acsalaska.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E02E513C4B7 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:37:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D5F71CDEE for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:37:17 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:37:15 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <950c85d80709171222o596ef293p75a793d87b45f38b@mail.gmail.com> <200709181647.41133.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <950c85d80709181418qce86478ya5f00d3f9ddebd8b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <950c85d80709181418qce86478ya5f00d3f9ddebd8b@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200709182337.17277.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Subject: Re: mixer levels on boot 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: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:37:19 -0000 On Tuesday 18 September 2007 23:18:23 Harry Doyle wrote: > when i issue /etc/rc.d/mixer stop then reboot, the mixer shows set to 7:7, > but then it still clips like it does on 90. then i set mixer to 7 and it > says setting mixer fro 90 to 7. > > i am thinking that /etc/rc.d/mixer gets invoked before kldload loads the > driver because both dmesg and mixer tell me there is no mixer device till > the machine is up for around 2 minutes. That makes sense. Rob has given the answer earlier. You need to load the driver in /boot/loader.conf. > maybe i will try the hda enable in > rc.conf No, /boot/loader.conf. But is your card a hda? It would help a lot if you post the output of "pciconf -lv" relevant for the soundcard and/or show us what exactly you are doing in /usr/local/etc/rc.d with that driver. For example, this is mine: pcm0@pci0:31:5: class=0x040100 card=0x016a1028 chip=0x24c58086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller' class = multimedia subclass = audio Driver loaded by: # grep ich /boot/loader.conf snd_ich_load="YES" > , but it doesn't seem ac97 on unix is as well supported as the > windows drivers so i need the particular driver i downloaded (i might be > wrong). Ac97 is a codec used on a multitude of soundcards to produce pcm audio AFAIK, so there's no specific driver for it. -- Mel