Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 08:43:34 -0800 From: Gary Schenk <gwschenk@socal.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: AC97 sound support Message-ID: <200311030843.34185.gwschenk@socal.rr.com>
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I've just installed 5.1 -RELEASE on my new machine, a HP a350n. For sound this computer uses onboard RealTek AC97 Audio. I went throught the normal installation steps, then ran the steps for soundcard configuration in the manual. I ran kldload. I recompiled the kernel with 'device pcm'. I tried 'options PNPBIOS', at which point I received a message about an unkown option. dmesg | grep pci gives me this line: pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 31.5 (no driver attached) dmesg | grep pcm returns nothing. This has all been seen on this list before. I searched c.u.b.f.m and -questions and have seen this come up before, but I never saw a resolution. My question is: Does all this mean the FreeBSD does not support onboard Realtek AC97 Audio? I'd just like to know before I go out and buy a soundcard. It is not that I'm cheap, I just like finding out how FreeBSD works. :-) However it looks like a Soundblaster Live is the answer. Thanks for the help in the past and future. uname returns: FreeBSD fuzz.socal.rr.com 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Sun Nov 2 22:56:57 PST 2003 root@fuzz.socal.rr.com:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/FUZZ i386 Gary Schenk
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