Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 12:34:08 -0800 From: "gummibear@nettaxi.com" <gummibear@nettaxi.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Trouble configuring sound on a Compaq Presario 5240 Message-ID: <200011282034.MAA28910@mail5.bigmailbox.com>
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Hello all! I'm having a pretty hard time configuring the sound card of a compaq presario 5240 with FreeBSD 4.2 release. I have recompiled the kernel with "device pcm" and rebooted. No pcm device seems to be found. I'm not 100% sure what kind of sound chip it has, but by looking at the motherboard I noticed an ESS Audiodrive chip. I believe that to be the sound chip. I'm wondering if that sound chip is supported. According to the pcm manpage, ESS sound chips are supported. Although, I didn't see any mention of the Audiodrive specifically (did I miss it?). I'm trying to find more technical information on the Compaq site concerning this model. One of things that I have seen in the past on this mailinglist is that sometimes the pcm driver won't find the audio device if the BIOS is set to PNP OS = Yes. I'd check the BIOS but I have no clue how to get past the COMPAQ boot up screen and into the BIOS, but I'm also doing a lookup on that on the Compaq website. In case you know how to get into the BIOS, please let me know. Another thing I was thinking about was maybe the boot.conf or kernel.conf (forgot the name) file that sets device settings on bootup. Maybe I have to tweak that? I wouldn't think so, because I would still get something showing up in my dmesg concerning the audio device. Maybe a device unknown or something at least. Other than that, I don't know what else to tell ya. If you need my kernel config and my dmesg output I'll gladly post that as well. Please keep me posted! :) Joey Garcia ------------------------------------------------------------ Shop Name-Brand stores for the holidays using the Nettaxi StoreRunner! http://shop.storerunner.com/nettaxi/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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