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Date:      Sun, 30 Jun 2002 22:52:11 -0700
From:      Randall Creighton <randyc@cablerocket.com>
To:        Ryan Grove <ryan@wonko.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Using PCI sound card instead of onboard sound
Message-ID:  <3D1FEE0B.6010809@cablerocket.com>
References:  <3D1FC118.90609@wonko.com>

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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: <CMedia CMI8738> 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.
>



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