From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 3 08:43:37 2003 Return-Path: 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 9B86016A4CE for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2003 08:43:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from orngca-mls03.socal.rr.com (mls03.hawaii.rr.com [66.75.160.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0BDB43FE3 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2003 08:43:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gwschenk@socal.rr.com) Received: from fuzz.socal.rr.com (cpe-66-74-149-98.socal.rr.com [66.74.149.98])hA3GhYU11852 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2003 08:43:34 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Schenk To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 08:43:34 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311030843.34185.gwschenk@socal.rr.com> Subject: AC97 sound support X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 16:43:37 -0000 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: 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