Re: Sound on Dell Dimension 8300 (FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE)

From: Svein Halvor Halvorsen (svein-freebsd-questions_at_theloosingend.net)
Date: 03/31/05

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To: Amit Kumar Saha <amsaha@cs.rice.edu>

    * Amit Kumar Saha [2005-03-30 11:30 -0600]
    > I am trying to enable the builtin sound card present in Dell
    > Dimension 8300 but cant seem to get it done. As far as I remember, in
    > FreeBSD 5.3 it can be done simply by having the following two options in
    > the kernel config file:
    >
    > device sound
    > device snd_ich
    >
    > However, FreeBSD 5.1 does not recognize any of these even (Even man sound
    > or man snd_ich does not work even though it should work on any FreeBSD 5.*
    > So I guess I have to give some hardware hints in order to

    You need the old-style (aka 4.x style) "device pcm" in versions prior to
    5.3-REL (maybe 5.2.1). However, you should REALLY consider upgrading to
    either 5.3-REL or 5.4-PRE as ALOT of stuff has been done since 5.1-REL

    Svein Halvor
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