From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 20 13:47:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pemaquid.safeport.com (pemaquid.safeport.com [204.156.12.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B36437B410 for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 13:47:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by pemaquid.safeport.com (8.11.5/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f8KKl2078306; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:47:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) X-Authentication-Warning: pemaquid.safeport.com: doug owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:47:01 -0400 (EDT) From: doug@safeport.com To: Jasoncfain@aol.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sound card In-Reply-To: <9a.1a07b288.28dae5e1@aol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My son did most of the leg work on his system and my laptop. Here is what I remember 1) added to the kernel: # ESS sound card support device pcm 2) This seem to be the ONLY change I made. I thought for sure I add put something in /boot/loader.conf as per http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/4-STABLE/errata/x66.html e.g., The release note entry for the ESS Maestro-3/Allegro sound driver gave an incorrect command for loading the driver via /boot/loader.conf. The correct command is: snd_maestro3_load="YES" but it is not there now and the sound works just fine. Doing the MAKEDEV was the only other thing. You should have devices like audio, sndstat and the like. I have a Dell 7500 with a built-in ESS Maestro card pcm0: port 0x1400-0x14ff irq 5 at device 8.0 on pci0 is the only line I get on boot. I am listening to some mp3s so I am pretty sure it is working :) I will get on my son's system when he next boots to FreeBSD (He is in college) and see what we did there. He did most of the research and setup for me so I am not as clear on the details as I would otherwise be. There are about about 250 "recent" message in questions on this. I am not sure how much is kept on the website, I keep about the last 30K or so to use as reference material. With sound anyway each system seems to be slightly different. As far as I can tell, my laptop should not be working. I know I changed loader.conf at one point, I do not remember removing that line. On the other machine it was not PnP so we had a device statement configured to look like it did in win98. The problem with that machine as I recall was picking another irq for the monitor so we could configure the sound to be what we know worked. Hope some of this helps. On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 Jasoncfain@aol.com wrote: > so do i need to tell the paremeters of the sound card if its pnp or just > enter device pcm and device sbc i have the book that came with the system by > greg lehay > _____ Douglas Denault doug@safeport.com Voice: 301-469-8766 Fax: 301-469-0601 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message