From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 4 23:56:18 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEDAE16A4CE for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 23:56:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91.asp.att.net [63.240.76.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 354E943D31 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 23:56:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@nbritton.org) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (12-223-129-46.client.insightbb.com[12.223.129.46]) by sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91) with ESMTP id <20050204235617i9100k55b7e>; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 23:56:17 +0000 Message-ID: <42040BA0.2030308@nbritton.org> Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 17:56:16 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050202) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nikolas Britton References: <20050204201505.A75EDC031@postfix3-2.free.fr> <4203F5E2.8080605@nbritton.org> <420404F1.7070802@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <420404F1.7070802@nbritton.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org cc: Fabrice Subject: Re: Loading module for sound chip SiS 7102 X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 23:56:18 -0000 Nikolas Britton wrote: > Nikolas Britton wrote: > >> Fabrice wrote: >> >>> Hi ! >>> >>> Debian user just have installed FreeBSD 5.3. >>> Seems great ! >>> >>> But I my sound chip do not properly work. >>> >>> I tried to : >>> >>> kldload snd_... >>> >>> pilots one by one until I found snd_ich pilot that made some sound >>> when KDE 3.3 launch >>> (and suppress the error about /dev/dsp ) >>> >>> But the sound works 2 seconds only and becomes then silently stuck ! >>> >>> After loading pilot : >>> kldload snd_ich >>> >>> the Sis chip seems to be seen. I get the following msg : >>> >>> pcm0: SiS 7012 port 0xd800-0xd63f, 0xdc00-0xdcff IRQ 11 at dev >>> 2.7 on PCI 0 >>> ICH0: (GIANT_LOCKED) >>> >>> This SiS sound chip properly works on Debian linux on the same machine. >>> But I remember that it was hard to find the right pilot with Linux... >>> >>> Can you give me any advice, please ? >>> >>> >> Yea, find a better translation service... Put these in >> /boot/loader.conf: >> sound_load="YES" >> snd_driver_load="YES" >> hw.snd.maxautovchans=4 >> >> After that reboot and grep dmesg (dmesg |grep -i foo) for anything >> related to sound; snd, pcm, AC97, etc. Then you could check sndstat >> and see what it says (cat /dev/sndstat) but it should say about the >> same as dmesg (your are doing this to find out which drivers to >> load). The next step now would be to test the sound system at the >> console, make and install the ports cplay and splay (both are under >> /usr/ports/audio) then using cplay* play some mp3s. If you can hear >> music then everything's good to go (if you still can't hear music in >> X then the problem is with X or your music player, etc.) but if you >> still can't hear music then post this question to freebsd questions >> mailing list (You could also try changing the IRQ it uses or set >> PnP_OS=no in the BIOS, it should be set to this anyways for >> FreeBSD!... in general, play with the BIOS settings). >> >> *cplay's config file, you shouldn't need it but to cover all >> bases..., copy and paste it to your home directory, ".cplayrc": >> >> PLAYERS = [ >> FrameOffsetPlayer("ogg123 -q -v -k %d %s", "\.ogg$"), >> FrameOffsetPlayer("splay -f -k %d %s", "(^http://|\.mp[123]$)", >> 38.28), >> FrameOffsetPlayer("mpg123 -q -v -k %d %s", >> "(^http://|\.mp[123]$)", 38.28), >> FrameOffsetPlayer("mpg321 -q -v -k %d %s", >> "(^http://|\.mp[123]$)", 38.28), >> TimeOffsetPlayer("madplay -v --no-tty-control >> --display-time=remaining -s %d %s", "\.mp[123]$"), >> NoOffsetPlayer("mikmod -q -p0 %s", >> "\.(mod|xm|fm|s3m|med|col|669|it|mtm)$"), >> NoOffsetPlayer("xmp -q %s", >> "\.(mod|xm|fm|s3m|med|col|669|it|mtm|stm)$"), >> NoOffsetPlayer("play %s", "\.(aiff|au|cdr|mp3|ogg|wav)$"), >> NoOffsetPlayer("speexdec %s", "\.spx$") >> ] >> >> I wish they'd get email working again (list server was blacklisted), >> Nikolas > > > Sorry I should have given a bit more info at the start of my reply. > Putting those lines in loader.conf will load the sound subsystem > (pcm), I don't think it's needed as I think "snd_driver_load" will > load it but I'm not sure so... and you'll need it afterwords, all of > the sound drivers, and setup up to 4 virtual audio channels as needed, > automatically. The part about dmesg etc. should be done last, look in > /boot/defaults/loader.conf (starting at line 255) to find the drivers > you want to load, remove snd_driver_load from /boot/loader.conf and > add the drivers that your card is using there. I think your problem is > that you just didn't have any virtual channels setup, KDE would then > hog the sound system and then you wouldn't hear anything else, but > thats just an educated guess, donno I use cplay even when i'm in X. > and only one of the list servers was blacklisted (the main one), your > email was one of the few I got today. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Also, here is the FreeBSD handbook in french: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/fr_FR.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/fr_FR.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/multimedia.html googles translation service sucks, this is what I get when I converted it to french and then back into english: Moreover, here the handbook of French FreeBSD :-)