From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 28 12:34:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.bigmailbox.com (mail5.bigmailbox.com [209.132.220.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 854C137B400 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 12:34:08 -0800 (PST) Received: œby mail5.bigmailbox.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA28910; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 12:34:08 -0800 Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 12:34:08 -0800 Message-Id: <200011282034.MAA28910@mail5.bigmailbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary X-Mailer: MIME-tools 4.104 (Entity 4.116) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-Ip: [63.28.161.3] From: "gummibear@nettaxi.com" To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Trouble configuring sound on a Compaq Presario 5240 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello all! I'm having a pretty hard time configuring the sound card of a compaq presario 5240 with FreeBSD 4.2 release. I have recompiled the kernel with "device pcm" and rebooted. No pcm device seems to be found. I'm not 100% sure what kind of sound chip it has, but by looking at the motherboard I noticed an ESS Audiodrive chip. I believe that to be the sound chip. I'm wondering if that sound chip is supported. According to the pcm manpage, ESS sound chips are supported. Although, I didn't see any mention of the Audiodrive specifically (did I miss it?). I'm trying to find more technical information on the Compaq site concerning this model. One of things that I have seen in the past on this mailinglist is that sometimes the pcm driver won't find the audio device if the BIOS is set to PNP OS = Yes. I'd check the BIOS but I have no clue how to get past the COMPAQ boot up screen and into the BIOS, but I'm also doing a lookup on that on the Compaq website. In case you know how to get into the BIOS, please let me know. Another thing I was thinking about was maybe the boot.conf or kernel.conf (forgot the name) file that sets device settings on bootup. Maybe I have to tweak that? I wouldn't think so, because I would still get something showing up in my dmesg concerning the audio device. Maybe a device unknown or something at least. Other than that, I don't know what else to tell ya. If you need my kernel config and my dmesg output I'll gladly post that as well. Please keep me posted! :) Joey Garcia ------------------------------------------------------------ Shop Name-Brand stores for the holidays using the Nettaxi StoreRunner! http://shop.storerunner.com/nettaxi/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message