From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 31 07:06:54 2005 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 2D89116A4CE for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:06:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from royk.itea.ntnu.no (royk.itea.ntnu.no [129.241.190.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C0BB43D5A for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:06:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from svein-freebsd-questions@theloosingend.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by royk.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50A4866FCA for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:06:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: from maren.thelosingend.net (maren.math.ntnu.no [129.241.211.48]) by royk.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with SMTP for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:06:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 19984 invoked by uid 1001); 31 Mar 2005 07:06:33 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 31 Mar 2005 07:06:33 -0000 Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:06:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Svein Halvor Halvorsen X-X-Sender: sveinhal@maren.thelosingend.net To: Amit Kumar Saha In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20050331090252.C19829@maren.thelosingend.net> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Content-Scanned: with sophos and spamassassin at mailgw.ntnu.no. cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sound on Dell Dimension 8300 (FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:06:54 -0000 * Amit Kumar Saha [2005-03-30 11:30 -0600] > I am trying to enable the builtin sound card present in Dell > Dimension 8300 but cant seem to get it done. As far as I remember, in > FreeBSD 5.3 it can be done simply by having the following two options in > the kernel config file: > > device sound > device snd_ich > > However, FreeBSD 5.1 does not recognize any of these even (Even man sound > or man snd_ich does not work even though it should work on any FreeBSD 5.* > So I guess I have to give some hardware hints in order to You need the old-style (aka 4.x style) "device pcm" in versions prior to 5.3-REL (maybe 5.2.1). However, you should REALLY consider upgrading to either 5.3-REL or 5.4-PRE as ALOT of stuff has been done since 5.1-REL Svein Halvor