Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 14:15:58 +0000 From: Bryan Maynard <bryan.maynard@reallm.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel question Message-ID: <200507081416.02224.bryan.maynard@reallm.com> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a050701160231818c4c@mail.gmail.com> References: <200506292116.00205.bryan.maynard@reallm.com> <200507011629.48012.bryan.maynard@reallm.com> <ef10de9a050701160231818c4c@mail.gmail.com>
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On Friday 01 July 2005 11:02 pm, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 7/1/05, Bryan Maynard <bryan.maynard@reallm.com> wrote: > > I read through your kernel - very nice comments, thanks a lot! > > > > I compiled the kernel and boot-up is noticably faster, thanks again! > > I would like to investigate transfering all the device info from boot -v > > to LATITUDE_C600.hints. I don't really know what most of the info from > > boot -v means, I'd like to work on figuring it out. Maybe you could help > > me learn and we could figure it out together? > > Any help you could give you be greatly appreciated! > > One thing of note: I don't have any sound. I've never had sound, but after > > booting with the new kernel I went into KDE's control panel and tested the > > sound system, but nothing came out. I didn't get any errors when it > > restarted the sound system so I'm not sure what's up. > Your using the wrong driver. the one you want is snd_maestro3. Add > this to your loader.conf file: > #sound_load="YES" #PCM Sound Support > #snd_driver_load="YES" # Loads every sound drivers it can find > snd_maestro3="YES" # Your driver > hw.snd.maxautovchans=4 #sets up up to 4 virtual audio channels on demand > #hw.snd.targetirqrate=36 # read the sound man page > #hint.pcm.0.buffersize="16384" #read the sound man page > After you do that reboot and retest it. first thing is to check dmesg. > dmesg|grep -i pcm and do the same for ess and maestro, you should see > that it was detected. also you should try > 'cat /dev/sndstat'. fire up X and well, anyways.... if everything is > working put the driver in the kernel config file and comment it out in > loader.conf. I'll see what I can do about your other questions later, > right now I need a smoke and have work to do. My sound is working now, thanks :-) My battery doesn't seem to be charging though. . . Everytime I boot dmesg tells me that my battery has a critically low charge. I do not know how to correct this. I just need my battery to work and I'll have a fully functional laptop! > > I've incuded the dmesg output from the new kernel boot in case you need to > > look at it along with my current CUSTOM.hints file (maybe it'll help. . . > > :-?) > > Anyway, thanks a lot for the new kernel, it works like a charm! > > Bryan > _______________________________________________ > 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" Thanks for all your help! Bryan -- Open Source: by the people, for the people.
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