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cc: arden <arden@nildram.co.uk>
Subject: Re: sound driver not loading
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On Tuesday 18 May 2004 07:59 am, Kent Stewart wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 May 2004 07:46 am, arden wrote:
> > hi all
> >
> > another newbie question I'm afraid when i boot my machine the sound
> > driver module is not loading and have to type kldload snd_drivers
> > every time did i miss something on install?
>
> You have to add something like
> snd_driver_load="YES"
> to /boot/loader.conf for it to be run everytime you boot.
>
> > is it time to get a crash course in kernel compiling?
>
> That is what I did. I added "options pcm" to my kernel config file,
> which requires building a kernel, but why do it if the loader.conf
> addition works :).
>

That is "device          pcm" and not options.

Kent

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