Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 17:27:45 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> To: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> Cc: Fabrice <FabriceMarchant@free.fr> Subject: Re: Loading module for sound chip SiS 7102 Message-ID: <420404F1.7070802@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <4203F5E2.8080605@nbritton.org> References: <20050204201505.A75EDC031@postfix3-2.free.fr> <4203F5E2.8080605@nbritton.org>
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Nikolas Britton wrote:
> Fabrice wrote:
>
>> Hi !
>>
>> Debian user just have installed FreeBSD 5.3.
>> Seems great !
>>
>> But I my sound chip do not properly work.
>>
>> I tried to :
>>
>> kldload snd_...
>>
>> pilots one by one until I found snd_ich pilot that made some sound
>> when KDE 3.3 launch
>> (and suppress the error about /dev/dsp )
>>
>> But the sound works 2 seconds only and becomes then silently stuck !
>>
>> After loading pilot :
>> kldload snd_ich
>>
>> the Sis chip seems to be seen. I get the following msg :
>>
>> pcm0: SiS 7012 port 0xd800-0xd63f, 0xdc00-0xdcff IRQ 11 at dev
>> 2.7 on PCI 0
>> ICH0: (GIANT_LOCKED)
>>
>> This SiS sound chip properly works on Debian linux on the same machine.
>> But I remember that it was hard to find the right pilot with Linux...
>>
>> Can you give me any advice, please ?
>>
>>
> Yea, find a better translation service... Put these in /boot/loader.conf:
> sound_load="YES"
> snd_driver_load="YES"
> hw.snd.maxautovchans=4
>
> After that reboot and grep dmesg (dmesg |grep -i foo) for anything
> related to sound; snd, pcm, AC97, etc. Then you could check sndstat
> and see what it says (cat /dev/sndstat) but it should say about the
> same as dmesg (your are doing this to find out which drivers to load).
> The next step now would be to test the sound system at the console,
> make and install the ports cplay and splay (both are under
> /usr/ports/audio) then using cplay* play some mp3s. If you can hear
> music then everything's good to go (if you still can't hear music in X
> then the problem is with X or your music player, etc.) but if you
> still can't hear music then post this question to freebsd questions
> mailing list (You could also try changing the IRQ it uses or set
> PnP_OS=no in the BIOS, it should be set to this anyways for
> FreeBSD!... in general, play with the BIOS settings).
>
> *cplay's config file, you shouldn't need it but to cover all bases...,
> copy and paste it to your home directory, ".cplayrc":
>
> PLAYERS = [
> FrameOffsetPlayer("ogg123 -q -v -k %d %s", "\.ogg$"),
> FrameOffsetPlayer("splay -f -k %d %s", "(^http://|\.mp[123]$)",
> 38.28),
> FrameOffsetPlayer("mpg123 -q -v -k %d %s", "(^http://|\.mp[123]$)",
> 38.28),
> FrameOffsetPlayer("mpg321 -q -v -k %d %s", "(^http://|\.mp[123]$)",
> 38.28),
> TimeOffsetPlayer("madplay -v --no-tty-control
> --display-time=remaining -s %d %s", "\.mp[123]$"),
> NoOffsetPlayer("mikmod -q -p0 %s",
> "\.(mod|xm|fm|s3m|med|col|669|it|mtm)$"),
> NoOffsetPlayer("xmp -q %s",
> "\.(mod|xm|fm|s3m|med|col|669|it|mtm|stm)$"),
> NoOffsetPlayer("play %s", "\.(aiff|au|cdr|mp3|ogg|wav)$"),
> NoOffsetPlayer("speexdec %s", "\.spx$")
> ]
>
> I wish they'd get email working again (list server was blacklisted),
> Nikolas
Sorry I should have given a bit more info at the start of my reply.
Putting those lines in loader.conf will load the sound subsystem (pcm),
I don't think it's needed as I think "snd_driver_load" will load it but
I'm not sure so... and you'll need it afterwords, all of the sound
drivers, and setup up to 4 virtual audio channels as needed,
automatically. The part about dmesg etc. should be done last, look in
/boot/defaults/loader.conf (starting at line 255) to find the drivers
you want to load, remove snd_driver_load from /boot/loader.conf and add
the drivers that your card is using there. I think your problem is that
you just didn't have any virtual channels setup, KDE would then hog the
sound system and then you wouldn't hear anything else, but thats just an
educated guess, donno I use cplay even when i'm in X. and only one of
the list servers was blacklisted (the main one), your email was one of
the few I got today.
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