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To: David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>
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Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 20:54:34 -0700
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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Subject: Re: Any chance to get my sound card to work ? 
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> Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 21:38:22 +0800
> From: David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org
> 
> I have the sound card as the following mail said:
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=181707+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2003/freebsd-stable/20031214.freebsd-stable
> 
> But I didn't find that it works, I have loaded snd_es137x.ko:
> 
> tiger# kldload snd_es137x.ko
> pcm0: <Creative SB AudioPCI CT4730> port 0xe400-0xe41f,0xe000-0xe03f irq 
> 17 at device 12.0 on pci0
> pcm0: <Creative EV1938 AC97 Codec>
> 
> The driver seems identified the device, but no sound at all when I try to
> use it.

This card has initialization problems. If you boot Windows and then boot
FreeBSD, it works fine until the system is power cycled. This was first
discussed almost two years ago on stable. I have not seen any patch for
it. 
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634