From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 30 19:13:43 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 7379637B401 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 19:13:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hebe.or.intel.com (jffdns02.or.intel.com [134.134.248.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 239AD43E5E for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 19:13:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pavan.balaji@intel.com) Received: from orsmsxvs040.jf.intel.com (orsmsxvs040.jf.intel.com [192.168.65.206]) by hebe.or.intel.com (8.11.6/8.11.6/d: solo.mc,v 1.42 2002/05/23 22:21:11 root Exp $) with SMTP id g6V2Dc811472 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 02:13:38 GMT Received: from orsmsx26.jf.intel.com ([192.168.65.26]) by orsmsxvs040.jf.intel.com (NAVGW 2.5.2.11) with SMTP id M2002073019143415457 ; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 19:14:34 -0700 Received: by orsmsx26.jf.intel.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 19:13:38 -0700 Message-ID: <3D386AED1B47D411A94300508B11F18704AD6986@fmsmsx116.fm.intel.com> From: "Balaji, Pavan" To: "'Jacob Rhoden'" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: Autodetecting Hardware Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 19:13:36 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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 I have gone through the manual given by FreeBSD, but that assumes that we know which sound card we have. That's not true in my case (unless I open up my machine, and have a look inside). Pavan Balaji, Intel Corporation Email: pavan.balaji@intel.com "Only the Paranoid Survive" -- Andy Grove > -----Original Message----- > From: Jacob Rhoden [mailto:f3z@iprimus.com.au] > Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 9:11 PM > To: Balaji, Pavan > Subject: Re: Autodetecting Hardware > > > At 07:06 PM 30/07/2002 -0700, you wrote: > >Does freebsd have any software to do hardware autodetection > (like kudzu for > >linux). My company has given me a machine, and I don't know > what sound card > >it has. Is there some way I can get it configured? > > By default there is no support for sound compiled in the > kernel, so you > need to either rebuild the kernel (best option) or > dynamically load the > sound driver modules. How to do this is explained here: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/soun > d-setup.html > > If your lucky, it may work (: Ive only been able to get sound > to work on a > few of my computers! > > Regards, > Jacob > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message