Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:47:53 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Dak Ghatikachalam <dghatikachalam@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Any way to probe snd card? Message-ID: <20070215064753.GA82518@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <ba29b9b40702142016y3d3e102cwe0870efb7c05967a@mail.gmail.com> References: <20070215015754.GA81683@thought.org> <ba29b9b40702142016y3d3e102cwe0870efb7c05967a@mail.gmail.com>
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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 -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix
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