From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 30 22:52:35 2002 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 50E7D37B400 for ; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 22:52:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dewey.paralynx.net (dewey.mindlink.net [204.174.16.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE89E43E0A for ; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 22:52:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from randyc@cablerocket.com) Received: from [198.69.4.139] (helo=cablerocket.com) by dewey.paralynx.net with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17Ou6y-000193-00; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 22:52:32 -0700 Message-ID: <3D1FEE0B.6010809@cablerocket.com> Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 22:52:11 -0700 From: Randall Creighton Reply-To: randy@rcreighton.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020630 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ryan Grove , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using PCI sound card instead of onboard sound References: <3D1FC118.90609@wonko.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Ryan just add the card, check dmesg, it should show the sound card as pcm1. go to /dev and ./MAKEDEV snd1. this is the way I run as I have the on board sound. The problem with the c-media on board sound is I can't get the mic working, so I just added a SB 16. works fine. Randy Ryan Grove wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD 4.6 on a system with an Asus A7M-266 motherboard. > There is a version of the A7M that includes on-board sound, however I > specifically bought the version without the on-board sound support > because I wanted to use my own sound card. > > Unfortunately, my motherboard still *thinks* it has on-board sound, > and so does FreeBSD. I found a BIOS option that claims it disables the > on-board sound card, but it doesn't. FreeBSD still claims it's there. > So my question is, how do I get FreeBSD to recognize the PCI sound > card that I want it to use instead of this phantom on-board sound card > that doesn't actually exist? > > In case it matters, here's the output from "dmesg|grep pcm": > > pcm0: port 0xa400-0xa4ff irq 10 at device 5.0 on pci0 > > That's the phantom on-board card. The PCI card I want to use is a > Sound Blaster Audigy. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message