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Subject: Re: snd_hda peculiarities
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On Wednesday 30 December 2009 17:43:04 you wrote:
> Richard L. Mace:
> > On Wednesday 30 December 2009 17:12:35 Mark wrote:
> >>> manually load snd_hda via:
> >>>
> >>> # kldload snd_hda
> >>>
> >>> Googling, I found this page:
> >>>
> >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2009-June/035677.html
> >>>
> >>> Which reports precisely the behaviour I am experiencing. No
> >>> fix or workaround
> >>> is suggested.
> >>>
> >>> Has anyone with similar hardware managed to get this driver
> >>> working? Any
> >>> workarounds to my problem?
> >>> And I am using
> >>> $ uname -a
> >>> FreeBSD belenos 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov
> >>> 21 15:02:08 UTC
> >>> 2009     root@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> >>> amd64
> >>>
> >>> Many thanks
> >>> -Richard
> >>
> >> Try adding sound_load="YES" to the loader.conf HTH
> >
> > Thanks, but unfortunately result still the same -- no sound.
> > -Richard
> 
> This works for ME. Put this in rc.local;
> 
> kldload snd_hda
> 

Thanks, Bernt. That seemed like a good workaround, but strangely still did not 
work. Driver loaded, but still no sound. 

However, if I start KDE 4.3, open a konsole and do the kldload snd_hda, I get 
sound.

--Richard