From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 3 05:03:37 2005 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 C64C616A41F for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 05:03:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mark@mkproductions.org) Received: from ylpvm29.prodigy.net (ylpvm29-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.57.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3691343D45 for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 05:03:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mark@mkproductions.org) Received: from pimout3-ext.prodigy.net (pimout3-int.prodigy.net [207.115.4.218]) by ylpvm29.prodigy.net (8.12.10 outbound/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j9353pt7029490 for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 01:03:51 -0400 X-ORBL: [66.139.109.225] Received: from [192.168.1.25] (ppp-66-139-109-225.dsl.stlsmo.swbell.net [66.139.109.225]) by pimout3-ext.prodigy.net (8.13.4 outbound domainkey aix/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j9353M4j329386; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 01:03:33 -0400 Message-ID: <4340BB9A.6070506@mkproductions.org> Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 00:03:22 -0500 From: Mark Kane User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050928) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jason C. Wells" References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Realtek AC97 Support 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: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 05:03:37 -0000 Jason C. Wells wrote: > I haven't had any luck guessing at how to provide a driver for my > onboard Realtek AC97 audio under FreeBSD 6. Has anyone made this work? > > Can I use the linux ALSA driver with FreeBSD? Realtek provides this on > their website in source. I haven't manage to complete a compilation of > the driver yet. If such a thing has actually been done by someone here, > I'll try harder. > > Thanks, > Jason C. Wells I haven't really used 6.x at all, but I'm assuming it's pretty similar if not the same as 5.x. There is great documentation on how to set up a sound card here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html What you probably want to do is to load the "snd_driver" metadriver as a kernel module to see which driver works with your soundcard: # kldload snd_driver Then, to find out which driver it loaded: # cat /dev/sndstat You can either leave it as a module and load it at startup as the handbook explains, or you can compile that driver into the kernel which the soundcard setup chapter also documents well. I always do the latter but I'm sure the module would work fine too. By the way, ALSA is for Linux (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture), so those drivers won't work on FreeBSD. -Mark