Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 3 Nov 2003 18:41:20 +0100
From:      "Wout A." <de_wout@pandora.be>
To:        "Gary Schenk" <gwschenk@socal.rr.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: AC97 sound support
Message-ID:  <002801c3a231$b1c52390$0a7ba8c0@xtreme>
References:  <200311030843.34185.gwschenk@socal.rr.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Congratz,
Have you tried this?
# kldload snd_driver (This tries all sound drivers..one of them might
work...)
If this works, you might want to add the driver to the /boot/loader.conf,
you can find an example in /boot/defaults/loader.conf .

Good Luck!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Schenk" <gwschenk@socal.rr.com>
To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 5:43 PM
Subject: AC97 sound support


> I've just installed 5.1 -RELEASE on my new machine, a HP a350n. For
> sound this computer uses onboard RealTek AC97 Audio.
>
> I went throught the normal installation steps, then ran the steps for
> soundcard configuration in the manual. I ran kldload. I recompiled
> the kernel with 'device pcm'. I tried 'options PNPBIOS', at which
> point I received a message about an unkown option.
>
> dmesg | grep pci gives me this line:
> pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 31.5 (no driver attached)
>
> dmesg | grep pcm returns nothing.
>
> This has all been seen on this list before. I searched c.u.b.f.m and
> -questions and have seen this come up before, but I never saw a
> resolution.
>
> My question is:
>
> Does all this mean the FreeBSD does not support onboard Realtek AC97
> Audio? I'd just like to know before I go out and buy a soundcard. It
> is not that I'm cheap, I just like finding out how FreeBSD works. :-)
> However it looks like a Soundblaster Live is the answer.
>
> Thanks for the help in the past and future.
>
> uname returns:
> FreeBSD fuzz.socal.rr.com 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Sun Nov
> 2 22:56:57 PST 2003
> root@fuzz.socal.rr.com:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/FUZZ  i386
>
> Gary Schenk
>
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to
"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
>
>
>




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?002801c3a231$b1c52390$0a7ba8c0>