Robin Becker wrote: > I have an acer 1644WLMi laptop which has an HDA sound card. I tried > using the binary modules from > > http://tomoyo.mybsd.org.my/HDA/kmod/i386/ > > If I add > > snd_hda_load="yes" > sound_load="yes" > > to loader.conf then I have a crash when starting kdm > > I am running > > 6.2Release with Xorg 7.2 and latest port kde 3.5. > > I have seen that others have this HDA sound working; so what's the > proper way to get it working? My reading of the related threads in > freebsd-multimedia left me a bit confused. Download the driver from here:
http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/lowlatency/ I have an Acer laptop myself and have tested this in the past, it worked fine. I have not checked the recent releases though. Your loader.conf is fine; sound_load is not needed in itself, it will be loaded because of the snd_hda_load I doubt your problem has anything to do with kde. Try the sound driver from the command line, ie try to play an mp3 with mplayer or play _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"