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Date:      Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:49:32 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com>
To:        Pete C <nospam@thechristies.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: musicpd & kld sound
Message-ID:  <20061020144816.W10965@bravo.pjkh.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061020145003.eyzh8t0izkgko8o8@webmail.secureserverdot.com>
References:  <20061020134537.nsfybos19ccwkscg@webmail.secureserverdot.com> <20061020133506.M10965@bravo.pjkh.com> <20061020145003.eyzh8t0izkgko8o8@webmail.secureserverdot.com>

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>>> I have an issue w/ mpd starting (trying to, anyway) before the kld for
>>> sound loads up, which causes mpd to fail loading . . then I have to  start 
>>> mpd at the command line.
>>> 
>>> I would like to set up sound in the kernel, but I have Aureal 8810 based
>>> sound on the MB and don't see a driver to use in the snd_"drvr" line
>>> in the config file.
>>> 
>>> is there a way to specify the order in which these items load ?
>>> 
>>> any clues appreciated . .
>
>> 
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/audio/aureal-kmod/pkg-descr
>> 
>> Should do it I think... been a long time since I used it, but I had a
>> couple of turtle beach cards that were 88x0 somethings and it worked
>> great.
>> 
>
> maybe I'm missing something . . I am using the aureal-kmod pkg you linked to, 
> but thought it only works as a kernel module (ie: not compliled into the 
> kernel) . . can I use this to compile a custom kernel ? how would I go about 
> it ?

No it's me... I read your message wrong.

You could change the startup script for mpd to parse the output of kldstat 
to determine if it's loaded and if not, sleep awhile...

-philip



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