Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 17:03:36 +0300 From: "Mikko S. Hyvarinen" <morphy@morphy.iki.fi> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Cc: Casey <freebsdlist@keslick.com> Subject: Re: nForce2 Soundstorm on 5.2.1 Release Message-ID: <200404111703.36271.morphy@morphy.iki.fi> In-Reply-To: <4078B832.8040103@keslick.com> References: <4078B832.8040103@keslick.com>
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On Sunday 11 April 2004 06:14, Casey wrote: > Hello, > > I have an Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard, which has a nVidia > Soundstorm audio chipset on it. However, I can't seem to get this > chipset to detect in 5.2.1 Release, no matter what I try. Being > relatively new to FreeBsd, I don't really know that many ways to go > about trying to get it to detect. I was hoping someone out there might > be able to tell me something to try, or at least confirm for me that > this chipset doesn't currently have a driver that works, so I can stop > banging my head against the wall. Hello Casey, The Realtek AC97 audio codec on the A7N8X Deluxe board is supported by the pcm(4) driver. You need to build a kernel with "device pcm" in the configuration and it will be detected at boot - with messages similar to this in dmesg: pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 5.0 (no driver attached) pcm0: <Nvidia nForce2> port 0xc000-0xc07f,0xcc00-0xccff mem 0xe6080000-0xe6080fff irq 4 at device 6.0 on pci0 pcm0: <Avance Logic ALC650 AC97 Codec> That multimedia device without a driver is the Soundstorm DSP, which is not supported by any driver due to lack of documentation from nvidia. Alternatively, if the kernel shipped in 5.2.1 release has /boot/kernel/pcm.ko, you could try 'kldload pcm' to load it. I haven't tried using the pcm driver as a module so I have no idea on whether or not it will work. Regards, MSH
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