From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 22 00:44:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 D590E16A41F for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2006 00:44:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: from pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BDA543D45 for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2006 00:44:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (83.253.29.241) by pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.069.1) id 43CFE44F000839A5 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2006 01:44:20 +0100 Received: (qmail 34430 invoked by uid 1001); 22 Jan 2006 01:44:19 +0100 Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 01:44:19 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Andreas Davour Message-ID: <20060122004419.GA34334@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Andreas Davour , Mark Kane , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <43D2ABB8.7080908@mkproductions.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: Mark Kane , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sound driver for Compaq Presario? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 00:44:22 -0000 On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 01:23:09AM +0100, Andreas Davour wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, Mark Kane wrote: > > >You could try loading the "snd_driver" kernel module to try to have it > >determine what card it is and load the proper driver. It may work and > >would save the call/chat/email to support. :) > > > ># kldload snd_driver > > > >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html > > I have told my wife many times how much useful information there is in > the handbook, but I seems to have a hard time finding information > therein myself lately... > > Thanks for the pointer. Unfortunately it didn't give much more > information. I had tried to load snd_driver before based on some vague > recollection of it being a good idea. > > Having loaded that module, and everything it pulls in, nothing new at > all shows up on the console, in dmesg or in the /dev/sndstat file! > > The computer behaves as if there is no card there! If I didn't remember > hearing the Windows XP jolly sound when starting the computer I would be > tempted to think it broken. > > The only remaining information I have is that pciconf tells me there is > a device multimedia/sound from "ATI Technologies" as device 20.5 in its > output. :( What is the *complete* output of 'pciconf -lv' ? Not just the lines you think are relevant, but all of them. > > Maybe FreeBSD just lacks support for the built in devices on this > laptop. I would hate to have to tell my wife that she has to use Windows > XP after all... That is of course a possibility. Another possibility is that you just need to try a newer version of FreeBSD. I think support for audio on some ATI chipsets were added to RELENG_6 just a few weeks ago (and is thus not in any -RELEASE yet.) If you have the 'snd_atiixp' driver on your system I would try it. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se