From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 26 19:27:58 2003 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 0130137B401 for ; Mon, 26 May 2003 19:27:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ruth.r.its.enc.edu (fw1.enc.edu [63.85.52.127]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D19C443F93 for ; Mon, 26 May 2003 19:27:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owensc@enc.edu) Received: from noah.enc.edu (r1s5.r.its.enc.edu [10.100.0.15]) by ruth.r.its.enc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h4R2QxL5008668 for ; Mon, 26 May 2003 22:26:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from owensc@enc.edu) Received: from enc.edu (r1s10.r.its.enc.edu [10.100.0.20]) by noah.enc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h4R2bQi5040776 for ; Mon, 26 May 2003 22:37:27 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from owensc@enc.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: noah.enc.edu: Host r1s10.r.its.enc.edu [10.100.0.20] claimed to be enc.edu Message-ID: <3ED2CD26.3080708@enc.edu> Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 22:27:50 -0400 From: Charles Owens Organization: Eastern Nazarene College User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030402 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) Subject: Sound on Compaq Presario 2500 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: Tue, 27 May 2003 02:27:58 -0000 Howdy, I'm having trouble getting sound to work with FreeBSD 4.8 on a Compaq Presario 2500 (specifically a 2529CL). Has anyone had any luck with this laptop? According to the service manual both audio and modem functions are handled by this chip: Conexant Smart AMC CX20468-21. A number of other HP/Compaq laptops use this same chip as well (**I've appended a list below). The fact that audio is handled by the same chip as the (win) modem doesn't bode well. In hopes that this chip's audio functions somehow (independent of the modem functionality) emulate Soundblaster hardware (or Neomagic, etc) I've tried pretty everything I can think of, including: * loading (via /boot/loader.conf): pcm, sbc, neomagic, ess * building a kernel with 'options PCI_ENABLE_IO_MODES' * building a kernel with 'options PNPBIOS' All indications are that this is in vain. Here's some links: * Product site for Conexant chip -- http://www.conexant.com/products/entry.jsp?id=159 * Company that has linux drivers for some Conexant audio/modem chips -- http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/ I'm now struggling to cope with the realization that my new (okay... refurbished) 2.5Ghz laptop might not be able to play my mp3's !! (grrrr) Thanks for any and all help! Charles **List of other HP/Compaq latops using the Conexant Smart AMC CX20468-21 audio/modem chip. [there may be others... all these models share the same service manual.] HP Pavilion ze5300 Notebook PC HP Pavilion ze5200 Notebook PC HP Pavilion ze4300 Notebook PC HP Pavilion ze4200 Notebook PC HP Pavilion ze4100 Notebook PC HP nx9010 Notebook PC HP nx9005 Notebook PC HP nx9000 Notebook PC Compaq Evo Notebook N1050v Series Compaq Evo Notebook N1010v Series Compaq Presario 2500 Series Mobile PC Compaq Presario 2100 Series Mobile PC Compaq Presario 1100 Series Mobile PC -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles N. Owens Email: owensc@enc.edu http://www.enc.edu/~owensc Senior Technology Officer Information Technology Services Eastern Nazarene College -------------------------------------------------------------------------