Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 05:13:29 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> To: Jorn Argelo <jorn@wcborstel.nl> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A few questions regarding sound drivers Message-ID: <41CFEE59.7030308@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <20041227084745.M9038@wcborstel.nl> References: <20041227084745.M9038@wcborstel.nl>
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Jorn Argelo wrote: >Hi all, > >I've installed FreeBSD 5.3 AMD64 a few days ago. However, I am having sound >problems. I have an Ensoniq 5880 as specified by lspci and dmesg: > >00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) > >pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 13.0 (no driver attached) > >For example, when I try to load a random kernel module for sound, it says no >such file or directory. So when I take a peek in /boot/kernel, it indeed shows >up no sound modules. My FreeBSD server (which hasn't even have sound support >compiled in the kernel) does have them though. Can I use those? I've compiled >the kernel with COMPAT_IA32, COMPAT_43 and COMPAT_LINUX32. > >Also, I am not certain which driver I should have, though. It does not appear >to be in the hardware notes of the AMD64 port as well, so does FreeBSD even >support it then? > >Thanks alot, > >Jorn > > > I don't know about the first part (maybe rebuild/install the kernel so it will re/install the kernel modules?) but for the 2nd part put snd_driver_load="YES" into your loader.conf file and reboot, this will load all sound modules then you can do "dmesg | grep pcm" to find out if your card worked (not a definitive test) and if it did a good hint at what driver(s) to use.
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