From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 27 23:16:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sasknow.com (h139-142-245-96.ss.fiberone.net [139.142.245.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26B6415068 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 23:16:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@sasknow.com) Received: from localhost (freebsd@localhost) by sasknow.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA00749; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 01:16:04 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from freebsd@sasknow.com) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 01:16:04 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: Robert Perreault Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please help or direct to help In-Reply-To: <000801bf695a$6b0499e0$38794118@sshe1.sk.wave.home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Robert Perreault wrote: > Robert Perreault > Return Email Address: rjp773@mail.usask.ca Wow... Another U of S FreeBSD patron. I'm impressed :-) > I'm having problems making a customized kernel for my system. > I used GENERIC as a template in building my own kernel, removing > all the unneeded(I think) devices and controllers. I added in > some devices and controllers for my soundcard and joystick. > The kernel compiled and booted fine but there were problems: > > 1) When attempting to play sounds(WAV, MP3), all that came out > of the speakers was garbage(static and noise). Hmm.... It would be really helpful if you included full dmesg output. Sometimes sound cards are detected strangely. > 2) X-Windows failed to start due to an initialization problem > with the mouse. Again, dmesg output would help, here. Does the mouse daemon function at the console? Can you cut and paste text? > 3) When attempting to run /stand/sysinstall it terminated after > probing for devices with what seemed to be a dump of garbage > to STDIN. Most of the garbage looked like C style hex numbers > (i.e. 0xSOMENUMBERS) and when pressing return after the fail > it would try to run the garbage as programs. Hmm... Without seeing the output itself, I can't say anything for certain. Perhaps you have some device conflicts somewhere? Or perhaps you have specified some IRQs/addresses incorrectly? Your config file looks like a 3.x system. Are you running a -STABLE? Or is that 3.3-RELEASE? I don't recall reading any PRs for -STABLE in regards to sound lately. Have you tried Luigi's sound code? In my experience, it is sometimes better at detecting and using off-brand sound cards. Read the details in LINT and take the snd0 stuff out completely. I use the following: device pcm0 at isa? port ? tty irq 10 drq 1 flags 0x0 device pca0 at isa? port "IO_TIMER1" tty Works well for many sound cards I've tried, including new Creative offerings, many on-board "compatible" chips, and chipsets from some really weird vendors. I haven't had any direct experience with ACER sound card offerings. If it still won't work, you might just plainly have an unsupported sound card. It happens. $30 and a phillips screwdriver can generally remedy that, though. :-) If someone here hasn't run with one of those cards, you might want to search the mailing list archives if you haven't already. -- Ryan Thompson 50% Owner, Sysadmin SaskNow Technologies http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E Saskatoon, SK S7H 0W2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message