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Date:      Wed, 22 Mar 2006 01:49:57 +0800
From:      Ariff Abdullah <ariff@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Anna Davour <akesson@tsl.uu.se>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: sound on Compaq Presario (and kernel question)
Message-ID:  <20060322014957.4784324e.ariff@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0603211841450.2146@delirium.tsl.uu.se>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.61.0603211841450.2146@delirium.tsl.uu.se>

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On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:46:25 +0100 (CET)
Anna Davour <akesson@tsl.uu.se> wrote:
>=20
>=20
> Trying to get the sound to work on my Compaq Presario M2000. With
> version  5.4 everything worked fine except sound and ACPI. After
> looking at  http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/ I had the impression
> that I could get  the sound to work by applying the provided patch,
> but that it should work  without extra tricks if I upgraded to
> version 6 of the kernel. Well, I  didn't succeed with the patch, but
> since I didn't think sound so important  I let it be for the moment.
>=20
> Later I decided to upgrade anyway, and now I return to the sound
> problem.
>=20
> Now uname -a gives:
>=20
> FreeBSD possession 6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #0: Thu Mar
>  9=20
> 20:27:08 CET 2006   =20
> granntyckt@possession:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KERNEL2  i386
>=20
> Here I must ask what PRERELEASE actually means. It's not in the
> handbook  as far as I can see.
>=20
1) Don't compile sound support into your kernel, remove any
  "device sound/snd" or whatsoever from there.
2) Don't "kldload snd_driver" . Use "kldload sound" and
   "kldload snd_atiixp"
3) If the above doesn't work, post your kernel config here, also the
   output of "vmstat -i"



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Ariff Abdullah
FreeBSD

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