From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 6 05:50:28 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B11B16A4BF for ; Sat, 6 Sep 2003 05:50:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net (stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A359243FBF for ; Sat, 6 Sep 2003 05:50:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from 21-207.lctv-b4.cablelynx.com ([24.204.21.207] helo=yoda.datawok.com) by stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19vcWE-0001RV-00; Sat, 06 Sep 2003 05:50:22 -0700 From: "Andrew L. Gould" To: thor@telecom.sarkor.uz (Timur), Hendrik Hasenbein Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 07:50:36 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <20030906105150.GA18353@telecom.sarkor.uz> <3F59C184.4000901@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> <20030906114251.GA18424@telecom.sarkor.uz> In-Reply-To: <20030906114251.GA18424@telecom.sarkor.uz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309060750.36527.algould@datawok.com> X-ELNK-Trace: ee791d459e3d6817d780f4a490ca69564776905774d2ac4b732fa2dad5cfe1861a9c731d945bb8d1350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VT82C686/A/B AC'97 Audio Codec X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 12:50:28 -0000 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