From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 17 02:39:26 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 53A6316A4CE for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 02:39:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.watchdog.net.nz (beta39.watchdog.net.nz [203.97.42.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B0F443D46 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 02:39:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from enerider@yahoo.co.nz) Received: from yahoo.co.nz (ip-219-88-252-90.watchdog.net.nz [219.88.252.90]) by smtp.watchdog.net.nz (8.11.6/8.11.2) with ESMTP id i0HAdFB02053; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 23:39:16 +1300 Message-ID: <400910F4.5080408@yahoo.co.nz> Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 23:39:48 +1300 From: Elijah Plunkett User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030524 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dvelez502@verizon.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20040117033122.FQAG2677.out005.verizon.net@outgoing.verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <20040117033122.FQAG2677.out005.verizon.net@outgoing.verizon.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: On board sound problem 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: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 10:39:26 -0000 dvelez502@verizon.net wrote: >Hi, I am using FreeBsd 5.1 > >I read the handbook on adding a soundcard driver to the kernel. The >handbook says to add options PNPBIOS for on board soundcards. When I >was ready to build the kernel it stop instantly and complian it did >not regonize the PNPBIOS option. Below is an output from a previous >red hat installation about my soundcard. > >00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) > >I appreciate your help. Thanks > > > > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > Hi there! you don't actually need that option as things in 5.1 are mostly done through kernel modules instead of hardwiring the drivers in the kernel. So have you tried using "kldload snd_driver" after you have logged in? Or have you added a "snd_load_driver" line into loader.conf? HTH Elijah.