From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 3 08:55:19 2004 Return-Path: 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 1C1AD16A4CE for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 08:55:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE06443D1F for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 08:55:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Wed, 3 Mar 2004 10:55:38 -0600 Message-ID: <40460DF3.6090309@daleco.biz> Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 10:55:15 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040212 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: aaron@alpete.com References: <49450.69.48.112.134.1078328883.squirrel@email.polands.org> <20040303155043.81DFA170D4@www.wcborstel.nl> <22033.162.114.211.143.1078330060.squirrel@mail.alpete.com> <49537.69.48.112.134.1078330323.squirrel@email.polands.org> <21118.162.114.211.143.1078331227.squirrel@mail.alpete.com> In-Reply-To: <21118.162.114.211.143.1078331227.squirrel@mail.alpete.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Mar 2004 16:55:39.0406 (UTC) FILETIME=[5B45EAE0:01C40140] cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Curious sound problem in 5.2.1-R X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 16:55:19 -0000 Doug Poland wrote: >>Thanks Aaron, that's all I needed to do. If you don't mind, how does >>a mere mortal determine that the snd_ich.ko is the module for an Intel >>ICH5 82801EB sound chip? >> >> > >i'm quite sure i figured it out the "long" way. However, it was quick and >dirty, and should work on any system I think... > >1) I installed, xmms (or any program to play audio I think would work) >2) ran a short shell script as follows: > >cd $MODULES_DIRECTORY # /modules on 4.x and /boot/kernel on 5.x >for f in snd_*; do kldload $f; done #this loads every possible sound module > >3) play music with xmms >4) while music is playing execute the following: > >cd $MODULES_DIRECTORY >for f in snd_*; do kldunload $f; done #this unloads all snd modules, >however the one in use fails :) > >5) kldstat # to view current loaded modules. > >I'm sure I could just have looked it up somewhere, but I'm backwards. >Aaron > > > Actually Aaron, I find that enlightening, resourceful, and rather amusing (in a good way ;-) You have the hacker nature, I think.... Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.