Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 17:54:03 -0500 (EST) From: Matthew George <mdg@secureworks.net> To: Freddie Cash <fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Standard sbc and pcm support in GENERIC kernel? Message-ID: <20040305174855.V654@localhost> In-Reply-To: <49656.192.168.0.185.1078340349.squirrel@mailtest.sd73.bc.ca> References: <49180.192.168.0.185.1078334195.squirrel@mailtest.sd73.bc.ca> <20040303184634.8ADD9170D4@www.wcborstel.nl> <49656.192.168.0.185.1078340349.squirrel@mailtest.sd73.bc.ca>
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On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Freddie Cash wrote: > > I didn't really know which sound modules to use either. Then someone > mentioned /dev/sndstat to me and pointed me to the snd_driver.ko (5.x) > and snd.ko (4.x) modules. Loading this module loads every sound > module that FreeBSD supports. Then you look in the sndstat file to > see which driver(s) the kernel determined works for your hardware. > Then you just load those driver(s). :) > Unfortunately, it's not always immediately obvious even with /dev/sndstat: $ cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Installed devices: pcm0: <Nvidia nForce> at io 0xe100, 0xe000 irq 11 bufsz 16384 (1p/1r/0v channels duplex default) I was able to match the Nvidia nForce text to the output of `strings snd_ich.ko`, but in this instance the output wasn't immediately indicative of which module was actually being used ... =\ -- Matthew George SecureWorks Technical Operations
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