Re: Sound driver for Compaq Presario?

2006-01-21 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:58:38 +0100 (CET), Andreas Davour wrote: > Hi. > > My wife got herself a laptop, and I convinced her that FreeBSD would be > a good operating system to use. > > Now, do anyone know what kind of sound driver we should be using? It is > some kind of built-in card. When I t

RE: Sound driver for Compaq Presario?

2006-01-21 Thread Gayn Winters
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Gerard Seibert > Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 1:09 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Sound driver for Compaq Presario? > > > On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:58:38 +0100 (CET), Andreas Davour wrote: > > >

Re: Sound driver for Compaq Presario?

2006-01-21 Thread Mark Kane
Andreas Davour wrote: > > Hi. > > My wife got herself a laptop, and I convinced her that FreeBSD would be > a good operating system to use. > > Now, do anyone know what kind of sound driver we should be using? It is > some kind of built-in card. When I tried pciconf it just told me it was > a "g

Re: Sound driver for Compaq Presario?

2006-01-21 Thread Erik Trulsson
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.

Re: Sound driver for Compaq Presario?

2006-01-22 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 01:15:09 +0100 (CET), Andreas Davour wrote: > > Have you tried contacting the technical support staff for the PC? They > > should be able to tell you what is installed. > > No, but I might have to do that after all. I'm afraid I have very bad > experiences from similar suppor

Re: Sound driver for Compaq Presario?

2006-01-24 Thread Ariff Abdullah
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:44:56 +0100 (CET) Andreas Davour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Considering what kind of memory for detail you have in these cases, > I bet that you remember correct and considering the name > "snd_atiixp" it wouldn't surprise me if that can solve the problem. > Time to le

Re: Sound driver for Compaq Presario?

2006-01-24 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 11:44:56PM +0100, Andreas Davour wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jan 2006, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > >>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. > >