From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 9 15:04:23 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAC58106564A for ; Thu, 9 Apr 2009 15:04:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ricardo.meb.jesus@gmail.com) Received: from gate.criticalsoftware.com (gate.criticalsoftware.com [212.13.37.242]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5C628FC13 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 2009 15:04:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ricardo.meb.jesus@gmail.com) Received: from [192.168.1.139] (unknown [192.168.1.139]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by gate.criticalsoftware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 468CA22852B; Thu, 9 Apr 2009 16:04:22 +0100 (WEST) Message-ID: <49DE0E77.7010705@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:04:23 +0100 From: Ricardo Jesus User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: af300wsm@gmail.com References: <001636457a9afec3d9046720524f@google.com> In-Reply-To: <001636457a9afec3d9046720524f@google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: Loading sound drivers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: ricardo.m.jesus@criticalsoftware.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:04:24 -0000 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > 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"