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Date:      Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:04:26 -0500
From:      Dev Tugnait <dev@unixdaemon.org>
To:        Peter Clutton <peterclutton@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Sound Configuration, Sony Laptop with ac97
Message-ID:  <1132149866.9234.7.camel@dracula>
In-Reply-To: <57416b300511152041y2a68b5dbk21cefa7ba2ad427d@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <57416b300511152041y2a68b5dbk21cefa7ba2ad427d@mail.gmail.com>

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Do a kldload snd_driver, then test your sound. This loads all the sound
drivers...then go from there

On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 15:41 +1100, Peter Clutton wrote:
> Hi everyone, wondering if anybody could help me out. I'm running
> FreeBSD 5.4-release on a Sony Vaio, and just about everything worked
> right off the bat. However when starting Gnome, i get a message about
> how it can't open the sound device, and sound just isn't working for
> me.
> 
> The sound device listed in Sony's specs says ac97-compatible on board
> sound. I tried the open source sound drivers with no luck. Has anybody
> else been successful getting this sound device up and running? I know
> it's quite a common chip (my desktop, m$, uses it aswell). Is there
> perhaps just an option I can add to the kernel? That would be a
> no-brainer, i just need to know what to add.
> 
> Feel free to ask for more info, I will post exact messages, specs, and
> output from any commands that may help you. Thanks in advance.
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