Re: Audigy 2/FreeBSD 4.9

From: David Lodeiro (dlodeiro_at_inspired.net.au)
Date: 01/29/04

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    To: Levi Zander <lzander@perl.rwarrior.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 08:05:06 +1000

    Hi,

            I'm pretty sure this only works on 5.1 and later. And if you want to know how
    to do it, here's a little howto:

    Getting sound on FreeBSD 5.1-Release with a Creative Audigy Sound Card.

    I switched my main workstaion over to FreeBSD and found out that the Audigy
    card wasnt supported by any of the drivers as specified in the handbook.

    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html

    After a bit of searching on Google, I came across some promising finds.
    Firstly there is the OSS drivers, however there not free, then I also came
    across this site

    http://chibis.persons.gfk.ru/audigy/

    from where I downloaded the file emu10kx-22-june-2003.tar.gz into my user
    directory.

    Then I opened up a terminal and logged in as root.

    I coppied the archive to my /tmp directory

    # cp /home/myuseraccount/emu10kx-22-june-2003.tar.gz /tmp

    and unzipped the archive

    # tar -xvzf emu10kx-22-june-2003.tar.gz

    then I changed into the directory that had just been unzipped

    # cd /tmp/emu10kx

    I then had to compile the driver and install it

    # make install clean

    This finished with no errors, and after reading some of the output I noticed
    it placed a module in /boot/kernel ( I didnt exactly know that the file was
    a module, but I found this out by Google )

    I rebooted thinking that maybe on reboot it would load the driver.

    After the reboot I did pciconf -l -v which gives me a list of all my pci
    devices and what driver there using

    # pciconf -l -v

    Amongst other information it gave me this

    none2@pci0:10:0: class=0x040100 card=0x00511102 chip=0x00041102
    rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
           vendor = 'Creative Labs'
           device = 'EMU10K2 Audio Chipset ( SB Audigy )
           class = multimedia
           subclass = audio
    the part that Im interested in is none2@pci0:10:0 because this tells me that
    there is no driver attached to the card yet.

    I remembered reading somewhere that the drivers got loaded as modules, so I
    found out how to load a module, and I found out what the name of the module
    was by looking through /boot/kernel until I found the right one , in this
    case the file is snd_emu10kx.ko, so to load the module I did:

    # kldload -v snd_emu10kx.ko

    and to see if the card now had a driver attached I did

    # pciconf -l -v

    this time it had

    emu10kx0@pci0:10:0: class=0x040100 card=0x00511102 chip=0x00041102
    rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
        vendor = 'Creative Labs'
        device = 'EMU10K2 Audio Chipset (SB Audigy)'
        class = multimedia
        subclass = audio

    see this time we can see that the driver is attached to the card. So I
    rebooted to see if it loaded up at boot. After I rebooted I did pciconf -l -v
    again, but to my dissapointment it wasnt loaded. After looking for help, I
    found out that you need to set up /boot/loader.conf file in order for the
    module to be loaded at boot.

    There are to versions of the file, one in /boot/ and one in /boot/defaults.
    The one in /boot is completely empty, so I removed it. Make sure it is empty
    before you remove it

    # edit loader.conf file is empty therefore:
    # cd /boot
    # rm loader.conf
    # cp /boot/defaults/loader.conf /boot/

    This gives us a file with most of the possible options commented out. This
    file is similar to /etc/rc.conf in layout, and in the same way that /etc/
    rc.conf is read by /etc/rc, loader.conf is read by /boot/loader.4th. However
    by default /boot/loader.4th points to /boot/defaults/loader.conf , so the
    copy that you made into /boot/ stays unedited whilst the one in /boot/
    defaults/ is the one that you modify.

    This is basically the contents of my /boot/defaults/loader.conf file in order
    to get the Audigy card working

    exec=".( Loading /boot/loader.conf ) cr"

    kernel="kernel" # /boot sub-directory containing kernel and modules
    bootfile="kernel" # Kernel name (possibly absolute path)
    kernel_options=""

    userconfig_script_load="NO"
    userconfig_script_name="/boot/kernel.conf"
    userconfig_script_type="userconfig_script"

    loader_conf_files="/boot/device.hints /boot/loader.conf /boot/
    loader.conf.local /boot/defaults/loader.conf"
    nextboot_conf="/boot/nextboot.conf"
    nextboot_enable="NO"

    verbose_loading="NO" # Set to YES for verbose loader output

    #autoboot_delay="10" # Delay in seconds before autobooting
    #console="vidconsole" # Set the current console
    #currdev="disk1s1a" # Set the current device
    module_path="/boot/kernel;/boot/modules" # Set the module search path
    #prompt="\\${interpret}" # Set the command prompt
    #root_disk_unit="0" # Force the root disk unit number
    #rootdev="disk1s1a" # Set the root filesystem

    snd_emu10kx_load="YES"

    Note that each has its section in the loader.conf file , anything else in the
    file I left commented out.

    After editing the file, I rebooted my system, and when it finished booting I
    logged in as root and did

    # pciconf -l -v

    and the output I received was

    emu10kx0@pci0:10:0: class=0x040100 card=0x00511102 chip=0x00041102
    rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
        vendor = 'Creative Labs'
        device = 'EMU10K2 Audio Chipset (SB Audigy)'
        class = multimedia
        subclass = audio

    However I still didnt have sound, when I did a dmesg I found that my Audigy
    card was attached to the pcm1 device node, this is because I had until now
    been using the onboard sound wich was attached to pcm0. All I did to fix this
    was reboot and go into the bios settings and disable onboard sound, when it
    rebooted and went into FreeBSD I had sound through my Audigy card.

    > Hi! I have been trying to get my Soundblaster Audigy 2 working on 4.9 with
    > no luck. Anyone had any luck doing this? Or am I forced to upgrade?
    >
    > Thanks,
    > Levi
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    Good Luck

    David

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