I'm running 5.3-Release amd64 on an Asus AV8 motherboard which includes Realtek ALC850 audio chipset. I'm unable to get the system to recognize the chipset. From the archives/man pages/manual I've :
# kldload snd_driver kldload: can't load snd_driver: No such file or directory Modified /boot/loader.conf to use : sound_load="YES" snd_driver_load="YES" Recompiled the kernel with : device sound The last one resulted in /dev/sndstat showing up, but the contents show no devices : # cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Installed devices: However I don't see any snd_* modules in /boot/kernel/*ko I also noted that sys/dev/sound/pcm/ac97.c contains the following : static const struct ac97_vendorid ac97vendorid[] = { { 0x414c4300, "Realtek" }, static struct ac97_codecid ac97codecid[] = { { 0x414c4790, 0x0f, 0, "ALC850", 0 }, At this point I'm at a loss as to where to go from here, or which kernel module would support this chipset. Other than that this system is a screamer. This is my first experience with 5.3, AMD, and with the 64 bit port, so far I'm really impressed. I saw reports that the Marvell Gig Ethernet wasn't working for some folks, but it worked fine for me. I chose this motherboard as it was the only one of about three that supported socket 939 and had the Via K8T800 chipset, I was concerned about the reports of problems with the nVidia nForce chipset. I would have liked to have had PCI-X, but that's only available today with nVidia. The Promise SATA raid controller (one of two different brand controllers onboard) worked just fine. http://www.asus.com/products/mb/socket939/a8v-d/overview.htm Chris _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"