From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 30 18:45: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEBC837B40D for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 18:44:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [63.93.4.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D86DE43E3B for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 18:44:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost.wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6V1fsuF011411; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 19:41:54 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) with ESMTP id g6V1fsWx011408; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 19:41:54 -0600 (MDT)?g (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 19:41:54 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Dale Morris Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AC97 In-Reply-To: <20020730005147.GA7791@well.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Dale Morris wrote: > I'm trying to get my sound card working in a new install of 4.6 and it's > an onboard chip on a MSI 6309 LE2 mainboard. I've read the handbook and > I'm still confused about how to get this card working. > > Can I just insert the proper module by doing: > > root# kldload AC97**module.so (or whatever module(s) need to be loaded I don't know about that, I generally don't use kernel modules for things that can be compiled into the kernel. > or do I have to reconfigure the kernel? It seems it should function > under the soundblaster pcm module, but I'm not having much success. My MSI 6380 onboard sound works fine with just "device pcm" added to the kernel config file. (It's tinny, but that's not the fault of the driver!) > Also, if anyone can point me to a good site on kernel configuring, sound > issues I would appreciate it. Chapter 14 in the Handbook covers it reasonably well. It's on the www.freebsd.org web site. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message