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Date:      Sun, 7 Mar 2004 22:00:35 +0200 (EET)
From:      Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To:        Daniel Lang <langd-freebsd-hackers@leo.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Standard sbc and pcm support in GENERIC kernel?
Message-ID:  <20040307215946.G68396@haldjas.folklore.ee>
In-Reply-To: <20040305184424.GA10310@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
References:  <20040303160340.700C5170D4@www.wcborstel.nl> <20040304205210.GJ490@geekpunk.net> <Pine.BSF.4.50L0.0403050810510.14092-100000@fryit.atlasta.net> <20040305184424.GA10310@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>

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On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Daniel Lang wrote:

> Hi,
>
> David Raistrick wrote on Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 08:27:56AM -0800:
> [..]
> > kldload snd_driver
> >
> > is of course the correct way to do it.  FWIW, kldunload snd_driver does
> > /not/ unload all of the modules that kldload snd_driver loads.
> [..]
>
> snd_driver is a module that contains _all_ drivers,
> thus you have the best chance to get sound working.
> Unloading it, will of course unload the whole module with
> all drivers. There is no way to leave one of the drivers
> in the kernel.
>
> I agree, that there is not much documentation which driver
> module supports which sound device (or I was not successful
> to dig that up).
>
> However, you can determine the correct module, by subsequently
> loading and unloading each individual driver module. The one
> which attached to your sound device and actually works
> (check /dev/sndstat as well) is obviously the correct one.
>

And you really want this to be something somebody new to FreeBSD and
possibly unix has to go through to get sound working (afetr finding the
documentation, of course)???

> Not a very efficient way, but it works. :)
>
> Best regards,
>  Daniel
> --
> IRCnet: Mr-Spock
>      - kommst du siehst du, gehst du hast du, weisst du, krass! -
> Daniel Lang * dl@leo.org * +49 89 289 18532 * http://www.leo.org/~dl/
>



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