From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 4 01:31:03 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 1CE6416A4CE for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 01:31:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hosea.tallye.com (joel.tallye.com [216.99.199.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD80643D1F for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 01:30:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lorenl@alzatex.com) Received: from hosea.tallye.com (hosea.tallye.com [127.0.0.1]) by hosea.tallye.com (8.12.8/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j141U9Gf012670 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 17:30:10 -0800 Received: (from sttng359@localhost) by hosea.tallye.com (8.12.8/8.12.10/Submit) id j141U5sx012668; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 17:30:05 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: hosea.tallye.com: sttng359 set sender to lorenl@alzatex.com using -f Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 17:30:05 -0800 From: "Loren M. Lang" To: Joachim Dagerot Message-ID: <20050204013005.GB8619@alzatex.com> References: <200502022357.j12NvpJ9010925@mail-core.space2u.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200502022357.j12NvpJ9010925@mail-core.space2u.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-GPG-Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc X-GPG-Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Prope or probing aound card? 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: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 01:31:03 -0000 On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 12:57:51AM +0100, Joachim Dagerot wrote: > > I have a dell latitude cp[somrthing] 550 or 500. (laptop) > > It has a sound device ofcourse, but I can't figure out how to find out which module to load. Some OS has a probe function, but I can't find that in my 5.3 install. FreeBSD has all the same probing functions any modern PC has, but some old hardware can't be autoprobed, and other hardware may just not have a driver that knows about them. For example, my clie using usb is plug in play, but freebsd If it's a PCI card then pciconf -vl will be able to reveal it. If it's a little (lot?) older and is ISA, then it might support ISA plug and play. In linux I used isapnptools and it could autodetect some sound cards. I'm not sure what the freebsd equivalent is. For non-plug in play ISA cards, there is no could way to autoprobe their hardware, but guess and check sometimes works. I'd try sound blaster, snd_sbc, for old ISA computers. When guess and check, make sure your only loading isa-style drivers, there's no point if it's a pci driver. > > So I started trying out kldload from the first in the locate snd_ result. > > That wasn't too smart, I have rebooted a few times now. > > Is the a better way to do this? > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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" -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C