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To: Peter Harrison <four.harrisons@googlemail.com>
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2013-03-22 00:42, Peter Harrison skrev:
> Sorry for the late reply, been away from the keyboard for a while.
>
> I'm not loading snd_hda separately, but it's definitely there:
>
> root@thinkpad:/home/peter # kldload snd_hda
> kldload: can't load snd_hda: File exists
>
> I've seen that blog and a couple of other sites describing configure FreeBSD on the X60, and they all seem to infer that sound works without a problem.
>
> So for the moment at least I'm stumped.
>
> Thanks for trying to help.
>
> Cheers,

In your /etc/rc.conf you have

mixer_enable="YES"      # Run the sound mixer.

sound_enable="YES" Dont know if that should be in loader.conf or

rc.conf. Not having it myself.