Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 19:13:36 -0700 From: "Balaji, Pavan" <pavan.balaji@intel.com> To: "'Jacob Rhoden'" <f3z@iprimus.com.au> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Autodetecting Hardware Message-ID: <3D386AED1B47D411A94300508B11F18704AD6986@fmsmsx116.fm.intel.com>
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I have gone through the manual given by FreeBSD, but that assumes that we
know which sound card we have. That's not true in my case (unless I open up
my machine, and have a look inside).
Pavan Balaji,
Intel Corporation
Email: pavan.balaji@intel.com
"Only the Paranoid Survive" -- Andy Grove
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jacob Rhoden [mailto:f3z@iprimus.com.au]
> Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 9:11 PM
> To: Balaji, Pavan
> Subject: Re: Autodetecting Hardware
>
>
> At 07:06 PM 30/07/2002 -0700, you wrote:
> >Does freebsd have any software to do hardware autodetection
> (like kudzu for
> >linux). My company has given me a machine, and I don't know
> what sound card
> >it has. Is there some way I can get it configured?
>
> By default there is no support for sound compiled in the
> kernel, so you
> need to either rebuild the kernel (best option) or
> dynamically load the
> sound driver modules. How to do this is explained here:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/soun
> d-setup.html
>
> If your lucky, it may work (: Ive only been able to get sound
> to work on a
> few of my computers!
>
> Regards,
> Jacob
>
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