Re: BSD 5.3 Sound Device Problem. Please Help
From: cinnur (spam_at_getlost.com)
Date: 12/30/04
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Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 02:06:25 GMT
Besides adding the device sound into your config, you also need to
specify the driver.
For example here are the two lines that enable sound on my system.
device sound # Sound Support
device "snd_ich" # AC97 support
Those double quotes are needed.
Good Luck,
Sean
Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> comp.unix.bsd.freebsd is not widely propagated, so you won't
> necessarily get much help here (in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd).
> See http://www.freebsd.org/support.html for better ideas...
> [followups redirected accordingly]
>
> Mark Hummel <mhumm2@mchsi.com> writes:
>
>
>>Yes, I know that MAKDEV no longer exists, and, Yes, I have read the Handbook
>>which basically tells the reader to ignore the following paragraphs about
>>how to MAKEDEV devices because devfs automatically and dynamically makes
>>them for you. Well it isn't for me and I can't figure out why!
>>
>>
>>
>>Here is an excerpt of my dmesg:
>
>
>>. . . cut off to save space.
>
>
> (and to make sure that nothing related to the sound device is actually
> displayed...)
>
>
>>I've included the line:
>>
>>device sound
>>
>>In my custom kernel which appears to be working because sndstat returns:
>>
>># cat sndstat
>>FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
>>Installed devices:
>>
>>As you can see no devices are listed and that's my problem. I have a sound
>>driver compiled in my kernel, and it works according to sndstat, and I have
>>my motherboard integrated sound probed and logged by the OS, but for some
>>reason there's no "link" between the two of them for devfs. How do I
>>correct this problem?
>
>
> You have the sound device driver, but you probably (hard to tell,
> since you trimmed the dmesg and didn't show the kernel config) don't
> have a driver for the actual sound hardware.
>
> Try "kldload snd_driver" and I'm sure it'll start working.
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