From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jun 14 9:57:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from citadel.cequrux.com (citadel.cdsec.com [192.96.22.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A87E937C28C for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 09:57:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gram@cequrux.com) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by citadel.cequrux.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) id SAA16830; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 18:57:00 +0200 (SAST) Received: by citadel.cequrux.com via recvmail id 16825; Wed Jun 14 18:56:37 2000 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 18:58:26 +0200 From: Graham Wheeler Organization: Cequrux Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Sean O'Connell" , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sound support broken in FreeBSD 4.0-S? References: <14491b0f342d5ff7d4d265f9d05b27ba@cequrux.com> <20000614112341.H2097@stat.Duke.EDU> <742527ef53721df84c593f6698564803@cequrux.com> <20000614115420.J2097@stat.Duke.EDU> <20000614124142.P2097@stat.Duke.EDU> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sean O'Connell wrote: > > Graham Wheeler stated: > > Can't glean too much from WIndoze. If I go to the system properties, I > > see: > > > > General: VIA PCI Audio Controller (WDM) v033 > > Resources: IRQ 9, I/O Ranges 1000-10FF, 1434-1437, 1430-1433 > > > > which looks very different to an SB16, I must admit. > > This means it will behave like one if the backend PCI stuff is > attached and configured (a la the problem I was having with > the Yamaha). This is well into the realm of device driver needing > to be written (unless this is an OEM'd version of a supported pci > sound card). You might want to query on freebsd-multimedia, but > I wouldn't hold my breath. > > Can you get any noise out of it if > > point things at the dsp0 interface or dspW0 interface rather > than /dev/audio? Not sure if that'll do anything... Nope. I've done a bit of searching. It looks like it is a VIA VT82C686 chip. There are drivers for Linux. Given the three fairly major problems I am having with this laptop: * no sound * flaky touchpad * XFree86 4.0 crashing if I switch to a console and then back I may just have to switch over to Linux. A sad day indeed. -- Dr Graham Wheeler E-mail: gram@cequrux.com Director, Research and Development WWW: http://www.cequrux.com CEQURUX Technologies Phone: +27(21)423-6065 Firewalls/VPN Specialists Fax: +27(21)424-3656 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message