From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 30 19:17:20 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 61A6C37B400 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 19:17:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D47F43E42 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 19:17:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jud@myrealbox.com) Received: from dialup-209.246.208.185.dial1.philadelphia1.level3.net ([209.246.208.185] helo=sparky) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17Zj33-0005Dt-00; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 19:17:13 -0700 From: Jud To: "'Jacob Rhoden'" , "Balaji, Pavan" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 22:17:35 -0400 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) In-Reply-To: <3D386AED1B47D411A94300508B11F18704AD6986@fmsmsx116.fm.intel.com> Message-Id: Subject: Re: RE: Autodetecting Hardware MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Mailer: Opera 6.04 build 1135 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 7/30/2002 10:13:36 PM, "Balaji, Pavan" wrote: > >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 What's the output of dmesg? Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message