Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 07:50:36 -0500 From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> To: thor@telecom.sarkor.uz (Timur), Hendrik Hasenbein <hhasenbe@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VT82C686/A/B AC'97 Audio Codec Message-ID: <200309060750.36527.algould@datawok.com> In-Reply-To: <20030906114251.GA18424@telecom.sarkor.uz> References: <20030906105150.GA18353@telecom.sarkor.uz> <3F59C184.4000901@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> <20030906114251.GA18424@telecom.sarkor.uz>
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On Saturday 06 September 2003 06:42 am, Timur wrote: > On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 01:14:12PM +0200, Hendrik Hasenbein wrote: > > Timur wrote: > > >Hi! > > > > > >I have integrated via82c686 soundcard.. I am new to freebsd (coming > > >from linux), and wishing to use it instead windows at work. The sound > > >card in Windows XP is shown as AC97 codec, and works well. > > > > > >Unfortunately, I have no luck with making it work under freebsd. What I > > >am trying to do is to load via82c686 driver.. it loads, but the kernel > > >does not writes any messages about detected card (it with CMI8xxx card > > >at home).. > > > > I only added 'device pcm' to the kernel, so kldload pcm should work as > > root. > > > > Hendrik > > What do you mean by adding 'device pcm' to kernel? I have a kernel that > comes with 4.8-STABLE, i did not recompile it. > grep pcm /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT shows two lines: > device pcm0 at isa? irq 10 drq 1 flags 0x0 > device pcm > The line: "device pcm" needs to be added to a new kernel configuration file. The easiest way to do this is to copy /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC to a new file. Follow directions at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html I think the "pcm0" line is for ISA sound cards. > I try to do 'kldload snd_pcm'. Silence (the kernel is supposed to write > something like PCM... on the first console, am I right?) > > mpg123 fails, says can't open /dev/dsp > > Also, I try to 'kldload snd_via82c686', no results.. > > Timur. Best of luck, Andrew L. Gould
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