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Date:      Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:04:23 +0100
From:      Ricardo Jesus <ricardo.meb.jesus@gmail.com>
To:        af300wsm@gmail.com
Cc:        Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Loading sound drivers
Message-ID:  <49DE0E77.7010705@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <001636457a9afec3d9046720524f@google.com>
References:  <001636457a9afec3d9046720524f@google.com>

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af300wsm@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My motherboard, an ASUS K8V-X, has a generic type sound chip on board, 
> according to ASUS' specifications, it is an AD1980 chipset. The hardware 
> notes, linked from the handbook, does not list this chipset but does 
> list several Intel type HDA chipsets including one AD1981 chipset. Never 
> the less, using the handbook instructions I loaded the meta sound driver 
> and my chipset was identified as a via8233 chipset. The meta driver 
> loaded many drivers into the kernel, but through trial and error I've 
> discovered that only sound.ko and snd_via8233.ko need to be loaded. So, 
> I put these two lines into /boot/loader.conf:
> 
> sound="YES"
> snd_via8233="YES"
> 
> However, these two modules do not load on bootup. Why? How do I fix this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Andy
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 From man snd_via8233:

Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the 
following line in loader.conf(5):

snd_via8233_load="YES"



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