Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:28:05 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any way to probe snd card? Message-ID: <20070215072805.GA83369@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <45D402DC.2070704@u.washington.edu> References: <20070215015754.GA81683@thought.org> <ba29b9b40702142016y3d3e102cwe0870efb7c05967a@mail.gmail.com> <20070215064753.GA82518@thought.org> <45D402DC.2070704@u.washington.edu>
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On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:51:08PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:16:00PM -0500, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: > >>On 2/14/07, Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> wrote: > >>> > >>> I'm pretty stunned at how well gnome2 works on my > >>> antique 400MHz backup system. [[ gnome2-lite wouldn't go, for > >>> some reason.... [?] ]] Anyway, I do have a sound card in this > >>> one, but which *.ko I load or compile is the question. If > >>> memory serves, I think this has a Matrox card. I've tried > >>> adding a few sound [snd_*.ko] files, but no sound. The OSS > >>> dialogs open, but the tests produce no sound.. Would the sound > >>> card show up in dmesg if there were a sound card hiding? > >>> > >>> Any help out there? This old box is an HP Kayak "XU/XW". > >> > >>I solved most of my sound problems by taking actions reading > >> > >>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html > >> > >>regards > >>Dak > >> > > > > Hm. I forgot about adding the "hints.*"; but catenating > > /dev/sndstat indicates that I use snd_sb16.ko and compiling that > > in gives me a bunch of fatal undefines. So I added "snd_sbc" > > to the KERNCONF and am recompiling. > > > > Shouldn't be this hard; this worked with REdhat, just > > straightaway. .... > > > > gary > > What model's the card (or what does pciconf -lv report at least)? This is strange. A couple hours ago I kldloaded a few modules and saw that the card was my missing AWE64. Now, when I load snd_sb16, it looks like an ISA SB 16. It could be either. Note that if I load just snd_sb.ko, cat'ing /dev/sndstat returns zip. Still trying... gary > -Garrett > > _______________________________________________ > 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" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix
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