Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:47:01 -0400 (EDT) From: doug@safeport.com To: Jasoncfain@aol.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sound card Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0109201436230.7651-100000@pemaquid.safeport.com> In-Reply-To: <9a.1a07b288.28dae5e1@aol.com>
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My son did most of the leg work on his system and my laptop. Here is what I
remember
1) added to the kernel:
# ESS sound card support
device pcm
2) This seem to be the ONLY change I made. I thought for sure I add put
something in /boot/loader.conf as per
http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/4-STABLE/errata/x66.html
e.g.,
The release note entry for the ESS Maestro-3/Allegro sound driver gave an
incorrect command for loading the driver via /boot/loader.conf. The correct
command is:
snd_maestro3_load="YES"
but it is not there now and the sound works just fine. Doing the MAKEDEV
was the only other thing. You should have devices like audio, sndstat and the
like.
I have a Dell 7500 with a built-in ESS Maestro card
pcm0: <ESS Technology Maestro-2E> port 0x1400-0x14ff irq 5 at device 8.0 on pci0
is the only line I get on boot. I am listening to some mp3s so I am pretty sure
it is working :) I will get on my son's system when he next boots to FreeBSD (He
is in college) and see what we did there. He did most of the research and setup
for me so I am not as clear on the details as I would otherwise be.
There are about about 250 "recent" message in questions on this. I am not sure
how much is kept on the website, I keep about the last 30K or so to use as
reference material. With sound anyway each system seems to be slightly
different. As far as I can tell, my laptop should not be working. I know I
changed loader.conf at one point, I do not remember removing that line.
On the other machine it was not PnP so we had a device statement configured to
look like it did in win98. The problem with that machine as I recall was picking
another irq for the monitor so we could configure the sound to be what we know
worked.
Hope some of this helps.
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 Jasoncfain@aol.com wrote:
> so do i need to tell the paremeters of the sound card if its pnp or just
> enter device pcm and device sbc i have the book that came with the system by
> greg lehay
>
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