Fwd: Re: Finding the Right Sound Driver ...
Oops, forgot to CC this back to the list. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Finding the Right Sound Driver ... Date: Wednesday 27 October 2004 05:45 From: Matt Navarre [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Siavash EDRISI [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wednesday 27 October 2004 01:12, you wrote: Hi Matt! Sorry, if I am disturbing you again! I just wanted to send you the result of my trys! Well first I tried this: # kldload snd_driver The contents of /dev/sndstat was then this: # cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Installed devices: pcm0: ESS Solo-1 (unknown vendor) at io 0xd800,0xe000,0xe400 irq 5 (1p/1r/0v channels duplex default) Does sound work now? On my box the driver name showed up where yours says unknown vendor. I'm guessing that the snd_ess driver would be the right one, though the man page doesn't list the chipsets it supports. Try adding snd_ess_load=yes to /boot/loader.conf (for FreeBSD 5.x) I can't remember how to load a kernel module at boot on 4.x, you might be able to do it in /etc/rc.conf but I'm not sure. Does this tell you anything? The sound card is an ESS 1869. Thanks No problem. BTW in the future when you reply to emails from the list use Reply to All or Reply to List if your mailer supports that. Odds are you'll get a faster response that way. Sia Matt -- We all enter this world in the same way: naked, screaming, and soaked in blood. But if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn't have to stop there. -- Dana Gould --- -- We all enter this world in the same way: naked, screaming, and soaked in blood. But if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn't have to stop there. -- Dana Gould ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Finding the Right Sound Driver ...
[Redirected from -newbies.] On Tue, October 26, 2004 12:50 pm, Siavash EDRISI said: Hi! I have been reading the text Setting Up the Sound Card at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html in order to find and install the right driver for the sound card in my i386. The hardware is an ESS 1869 PCI. Before I had WinXP installed on this hardware and it reported that the location of the card is: PCI slot 3 (PCI bus 0, device 14, function 0) I did whatever is described in the section 7.2.1 of the manual: 1- I checked the entries in /boot/defaults/loader.conf. The right line was snd_sbc_load=NO I imagine this means that the driver is already somewhere on the harddisk! It means the kernel will not attempt to load the snd_sbc module at boot. 2- Then I inserted the following line into /boot/loader.conf snd_sbc_load=YES 3- I booted the system. Right after calling startx and entering KDE I got (as usual) the error message that the sound server could not find the file /dev/dsp. This may be due to a number of reasons. Among them are the snd_sbc driver not being the right driver for your hardware and KDE/X not being configured with the correct device. The first step is to provide copies of the outputs of the commands `uname -a`, `dmesg` and `kldstat`. Did you first try loading snd.ko (4.x) or snd_driver.ko (5.x) and see which driver finds your hardware? As I read in the manual configuring a custom kernel with sound support is just a second method and can be used alternatively. So I am not sure if I really have to do something in the kernel or not, since the first efforts did not help! Typically you don't need to recompile the kernel just to add something like a sound driver. Loading the module works just fine. Just to be sure, please provide a copy of your kernel configuration file so it can be checked. Could someone please tell me what I still have to do? Send a reply with the requested, necessary information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Finding the Right Sound Driver ...
Siavash EDRISI wrote: Hi! I have been reading the text Setting Up the Sound Card at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html in order to find and install the right driver for the sound card in my i386. The hardware is an ESS 1869 PCI. Before I had WinXP installed on this hardware and it reported that the location of the card is: PCI slot 3 (PCI bus 0, device 14, function 0) I did whatever is described in the section 7.2.1 of the manual: 1- I checked the entries in /boot/defaults/loader.conf. The right line was snd_sbc_load=NO I imagine this means that the driver is already somewhere on the harddisk! 2- Then I inserted the following line into /boot/loader.conf snd_sbc_load=YES 3- I booted the system. Right after calling startx and entering KDE I got (as usual) the error message that the sound server could not find the file /dev/dsp. As I read in the manual configuring a custom kernel with sound support is just a second method and can be used alternatively. So I am not sure if I really have to do something in the kernel or not, since the first efforts did not help! Could someone please tell me what I still have to do? I would of course be very thankful for more precise advices. Thanks in advance Sia Hi, Sia! I'm taking the liberty of cc'ing this to a more appropriate forum. For further diagnosis, what is the output of uname -a ?? The instructions have changed recently, because the code changed fairly recently, and the age of your installation might help determine the solution to your problem. I'm fairly sure I've used this card before Kevin Kinsey ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Finding the Right Sound Driver ...
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 01:55, Darren Pilgrim wrote: The first step is to provide copies of the outputs of the commands `uname -a`, `dmesg` and `kldstat`. Also the output of cat /dev/sndstat would help. Did you first try loading snd.ko (4.x) or snd_driver.ko (5.x) and see which driver finds your hardware? If you load the snd* kernel module you can cat /dev/sndstat and it should tell you which driver attached to you card. -- We all enter this world in the same way: naked, screaming, and soaked in blood. But if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn't have to stop there. -- Dana Gould ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Finding the Right Sound Driver ...
From: Matt Navarre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday 26 October 2004 01:55, Darren Pilgrim wrote: The first step is to provide copies of the outputs of the commands `uname -a`, `dmesg` and `kldstat`. Also the output of cat /dev/sndstat would help. Did you first try loading snd.ko (4.x) or snd_driver.ko (5.x) and see which driver finds your hardware? If you load the snd* kernel module you can cat /dev/sndstat and it should tell you which driver attached to you card. Or just read the attach messages. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
