From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 15 07:28:12 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C270D16A421 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 07:28:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4135713C4C3 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 07:28:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l1F7SB3w083428; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:28:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id l1F7SAGw083427; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:28:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:28:05 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Garrett Cooper Message-ID: <20070215072805.GA83369@thought.org> References: <20070215015754.GA81683@thought.org> <20070215064753.GA82518@thought.org> <45D402DC.2070704@u.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45D402DC.2070704@u.washington.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing twenty years of service to the Unix community Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any way to probe snd card? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 07:28:12 -0000 On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:51:08PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:16:00PM -0500, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: > >>On 2/14/07, Gary Kline wrote: > >>> > >>> I'm pretty stunned at how well gnome2 works on my > >>> antique 400MHz backup system. [[ gnome2-lite wouldn't go, for > >>> some reason.... [?] ]] Anyway, I do have a sound card in this > >>> one, but which *.ko I load or compile is the question. If > >>> memory serves, I think this has a Matrox card. I've tried > >>> adding a few sound [snd_*.ko] files, but no sound. The OSS > >>> dialogs open, but the tests produce no sound.. Would the sound > >>> card show up in dmesg if there were a sound card hiding? > >>> > >>> Any help out there? This old box is an HP Kayak "XU/XW". > >> > >>I solved most of my sound problems by taking actions reading > >> > >>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html > >> > >>regards > >>Dak > >> > > > > Hm. I forgot about adding the "hints.*"; but catenating > > /dev/sndstat indicates that I use snd_sb16.ko and compiling that > > in gives me a bunch of fatal undefines. So I added "snd_sbc" > > to the KERNCONF and am recompiling. > > > > Shouldn't be this hard; this worked with REdhat, just > > straightaway. .... > > > > gary > > What model's the card (or what does pciconf -lv report at least)? This is strange. A couple hours ago I kldloaded a few modules and saw that the card was my missing AWE64. Now, when I load snd_sb16, it looks like an ISA SB 16. It could be either. Note that if I load just snd_sb.ko, cat'ing /dev/sndstat returns zip. Still trying... gary > -Garrett > > _______________________________________________ > 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" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix