From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 16 14:04:30 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71B3016A41F for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:04:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dev@unixdaemon.org) Received: from mout.perfora.net (mout.perfora.net [217.160.230.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1081B43D45 for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:04:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dev@unixdaemon.org) Received: from [24.24.83.9] (helo=dracula) by mrelay.perfora.net (node=mrelayus1) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKp2t-1EcNtj2QnT-0003mF; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:04:29 -0500 From: Dev Tugnait To: Peter Clutton In-Reply-To: <57416b300511152041y2a68b5dbk21cefa7ba2ad427d@mail.gmail.com> References: <57416b300511152041y2a68b5dbk21cefa7ba2ad427d@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:04:26 -0500 Message-Id: <1132149866.9234.7.camel@dracula> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: perfora.net abuse@perfora.net login:6cab55b0e871d867d86bc0851d5d347f Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Sound Configuration, Sony Laptop with ac97 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: dev@unixdaemon.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:04:30 -0000 Do a kldload snd_driver, then test your sound. This loads all the sound drivers...then go from there On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 15:41 +1100, Peter Clutton wrote: > Hi everyone, wondering if anybody could help me out. I'm running > FreeBSD 5.4-release on a Sony Vaio, and just about everything worked > right off the bat. However when starting Gnome, i get a message about > how it can't open the sound device, and sound just isn't working for > me. > > The sound device listed in Sony's specs says ac97-compatible on board > sound. I tried the open source sound drivers with no luck. Has anybody > else been successful getting this sound device up and running? I know > it's quite a common chip (my desktop, m$, uses it aswell). Is there > perhaps just an option I can add to the kernel? That would be a > no-brainer, i just need to know what to add. > > Feel free to ask for more info, I will post exact messages, specs, and > output from any commands that may help you. Thanks in advance. > _______________________________________________ > 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" -- _____________ < FreeBSD > ------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || || [ We've switched the bath sponge with a tribble. ]