From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 13 2:51: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 166D437B43C for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 02:51:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vedette by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13Z9Au-000Feo-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:49:52 +0300 Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:49:52 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sound card drivers Message-ID: <20000913124951.C26396@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <000701c01bf3$296ebd20$690afea9@carol> <00091109580903.06234@butthead.walker> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <00091109580903.06234@butthead.walker>; from Caleb Walker on Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 09:57:36AM -0700 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Accept-Language: en fr X-Editor: Pico http://www.washington.edu/pine X-Location: Mombasa, Kenya, East Africa X-Uptime: 12:39PM up 16 days, 1:29, 2 users, load averages: 0.44, 0.42, 0.42 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quoting Caleb Walker : [000911 19:57]: Caleb Walker>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Caleb Walker> Caleb Walker>Look through the FreeBSD web site, all the info you need is there... Caleb Walker>http://www.freebsd.org This is being unfair to the guys!! I suppose you better not write if you've nothing to assist with. This is a very important forum where everyone, including you, Mr Walker, comes for help. This is a Windows fellow. Don't be hard on him. Help him if you can or just better not say anything. ### Hi Windows User, In FreeBSD, they do not install drivers like we do in Windows. All you have to do is to make sure the card you want to use is supported by FreeBSD. You can find out that in a file /sys/i386/conf/LINT. If you find that yours appears there, you'll then recompile support for it in the KERNEL. That is something like you make a copy of the file called GENERIC. cp GENERIC MY_MACHINE_NAME then edit the new file name using a atext editor like vi or ee or pico the lines you have to add will depend on what you get from LINT and the output of dmesg as regards your device. Please send us a copy of your dmesg, especially the portion that seems to talk about your sound card and some good guys in here will endeavor to help you out. Only remember they cannot make guesses. You may start with telling us what you used to call your sound card in Windows... Welcome to FreeBSD community. -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Systems Administrator Inter-Connect Ltd. 3rd Flr The Chancery Valley Rd PO Box 39519 Nairobi, KENYA Tel: 254 2 711140 Fax: 254 2 718418 the answer may be obtained by inspection. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message