From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 3 07:26:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66D9416A4CE for ; Sat, 3 Jan 2004 07:26:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from mallaury.noc.nerim.net (smtp-106-saturday.noc.nerim.net [62.4.17.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75B9C43D41 for ; Sat, 3 Jan 2004 07:26:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cbuisson@nerim.net) Received: from nerim.net (cbuisson.net1.nerim.net [213.41.135.238]) by mallaury.noc.nerim.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30D1262D05; Sat, 3 Jan 2004 16:26:14 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3FF6DF17.1060504@nerim.net> Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 16:26:15 +0100 From: Claude Buisson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kaarthik Sivakumar References: <200401030258.19558.kaarthik@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <200401030258.19558.kaarthik@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sound blaster live and onboard sound X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 15:26:19 -0000 Kaarthik Sivakumar wrote: > Hi >=20 > I have a DELL 2400 that has an Intel i845GL based board. I am currently= =20 > running 5.2-RC2 on it, mainly to get support for the onboard Broadcom 4= 40X.=20 > This machine has onboard sound that has been turned off in the BIOS and= there=20 > is a SoundBlaster Live! card in it. I kldload-ed the emu10k1 module (an= d=20 > later on just kldload-ed snd_drivers) but this sound card is not identi= fied=20 > and no pcm device shows up in dmesg. I have attached dmesg output for t= his=20 > and the output of 'pciconf -lv', which shows the sound blaster card but= with=20 > no drivers attached to it. >=20 Your card is a Dell-specific SoundBlaster Live! CT0200. Note: > none3@pci1:6:0: class=3D0x040100 card=3D0x10031102 chip=3D0x00061102 ^^^^^^^^ instead of 00021102 > vendor =3D 'Creative Labs' > device =3D 'emu10k1x Soundblaster Live! 5.1' ^^^^^^^^ > class =3D multimedia > subclass =3D audio > none4@pci1:6:1: class=3D0x098000 card=3D0x10031102 chip=3D0x70041102 ^^^^^^^^ instead of 70021102 > vendor =3D 'Creative Labs' > device =3D 'SBLive! Value Gameport' ^^^^^ > class =3D input device which is NOT an emu10k1. Dell says it has a "software accelerated" DSP,=20 needing a special driver =E0 la Winmodem... The only known (to me) working driver for this card is the non free OSS=20 driver from 4Front. I tried it, but found it simpler to buy a real Sound = Blaster Live! > When I turn on the onboard sound in the BIOS, I see the 'pcm' line in d= mesg.=20 > What exactly should I be doing here to get the sound blaster card worki= ng? I=20 > am still running the GENERIC kernel. I searched the archives of -curren= t but=20 > I havent found anything of use there. >=20 > Thanks. >=20 > kaarthik Claude Buisson