On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 01:23:09AM +0100, Andreas Davour wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, Mark Kane wrote: > > >You could try loading the "snd_driver" kernel module to try to have it > >determine what card it is and load the proper driver. It may work and > >would save the call/chat/email to support. :) > > > ># kldload snd_driver > > > >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html > > I have told my wife many times how much useful information there is in > the handbook, but I seems to have a hard time finding information > therein myself lately... > > Thanks for the pointer. Unfortunately it didn't give much more > information. I had tried to load snd_driver before based on some vague > recollection of it being a good idea. > > Having loaded that module, and everything it pulls in, nothing new at > all shows up on the console, in dmesg or in the /dev/sndstat file! > > The computer behaves as if there is no card there! If I didn't remember > hearing the Windows XP jolly sound when starting the computer I would be > tempted to think it broken. > > The only remaining information I have is that pciconf tells me there is > a device multimedia/sound from "ATI Technologies" as device 20.5 in its > output. :(
What is the *complete* output of 'pciconf -lv' ? Not just the lines you think are relevant, but all of them. > > Maybe FreeBSD just lacks support for the built in devices on this > laptop. I would hate to have to tell my wife that she has to use Windows > XP after all... That is of course a possibility. Another possibility is that you just need to try a newer version of FreeBSD. I think support for audio on some ATI chipsets were added to RELENG_6 just a few weeks ago (and is thus not in any -RELEASE yet.) If you have the 'snd_atiixp' driver on your system I would try it. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
