From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 3 03:12:28 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFE74106566C for ; Sat, 3 Sep 2011 03:12:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from manek@ghur.net) Received: from mail11c.verio-web.com (mail11c.verio-web.com [204.202.242.55]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60DE78FC12 for ; Sat, 3 Sep 2011 03:12:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx112.stngva01.us.mxservers.net (198.173.112.18) by mail11c.verio-web.com (RS ver 1.0.95vs) with SMTP id 1-0257707946 for ; Fri, 2 Sep 2011 22:45:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from unknown [161.58.148.99] (EHLO mmm1129.verio-web.com) by va1-mx112.stngva01.us.mxservers.net (mxl_mta-3.1.0-05) with ESMTP id ad4916e4.2784865184.1221141.00-002.va1-mx112.stngva01.us.mxservers.net (envelope-from ); Fri, 02 Sep 2011 22:45:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 1265 invoked from network); 3 Sep 2011 02:45:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Redemption) (manek@71.116.64.195) by with ESMTPA; 3 Sep 2011 02:45:45 -0000 From: "Sameer R. Manek" To: Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 19:45:44 -0700 Message-ID: <000f01cc69e3$947f5fd0$bd7e1f70$@ghur.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 14.0 Thread-Index: Acxp4YqyxX8B+Ou4TKSu7/7eAqFygA== Content-Language: en-us X-Spam: [F=0.2000000000; S=0.200(2010122901); MH=0.500(2011090224)] X-MAIL-FROM: X-SOURCE-IP: [161.58.148.99] X-SF-Loop: 1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: sound support X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:12:28 -0000 Hello Documentation team. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/sound-setup.html seems to be a little out of date, since it's focused on the expectation that a creative labs card has been installed, which doesn't reflect the reality that a majority of motherboards come with a building audio chipset. Perhaps a mention of device snd_hda might be worthy of inclusion? Based on: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2006-September/004720. html Here's my suggested inclusion High Definition Audio for Intel HDA and compatible audio chipsets Many current systems can use a driver based on the works of Ariff Abdullah & Stephane E. Potvin's HDA driver. To use the driver as a kernel module # kldload snd_hda