From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 20 07:14:14 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 5628D16A4CE for ; Mon, 20 Dec 2004 07:14:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ds.netgate.net (ds.netgate.net [205.214.170.232]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 226D743D45 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 2004 07:14:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ctodd@chrismiller.com) Received: (qmail 4912 invoked from network); 20 Dec 2004 07:14:13 -0000 Received: from vp4.netgate.net (ibrew@205.214.170.248) by ds.netgate.net with SMTP; 20 Dec 2004 07:14:13 -0000 Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 23:14:13 -0800 (PST) From: ctodd@chrismiller.com X-X-Sender: ibrew@vp4.netgate.net To: Kevin Kinsey In-Reply-To: <41C665EB.9000901@daleco.biz> Message-ID: References: <41C665EB.9000901@daleco.biz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: admin2@forkthepenguin.com cc: Daniel O'Connor cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3 Release and Realtek 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: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 07:14:14 -0000 On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > >On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 12:44, ctodd@chrismiller.com wrote: > > > >>The problem was that none of the snd_* modules were built, and I did > >>rebuild the kernel. Once I built the modules, I was able to load the > >>drivers. I think you need to add "device sound" to get these modules to > >>build automgically. > > > >No, the modules are built regardless of the kernel options you use. > > Hmm; how did ctodd know they weren't? I have a dual personality :-) My original post to hackers from admin2 was caught by the moderation mechanism, ctodd is what I signed up with, I just don't like to post under my regular alias because I get spammed to death. Oh well, too late now. > I had one box that seemed weird in that it couldn't kldload anything; I > somehow discovered that it had left /boot/kernel/ empty, but put all the > *ko's in /boot/modules/ (or was it the other way 'round??) > > ... Anyway, once I copied everything over to the other dir, > no problems with "kldload" (or sound, or ....) > > Could this be what happened in this case? No, they (snd_*) just don't get built. There is no /boot/modules directory, at least in 5.3. I put off playing with 5.x until a reasonably mature release was available, maybe this directory did exist in an earlier 5.x release? Chris