Re: Problems getting sound to work in 5.3

Ok will try that next chance I can


On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 09:34:43 -0500, Chris Rich <reject0_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I've recently installed 5.3, the last time I installed FreeBSD(4.9) I
> was able to get sound working by adding a device pcm into the kernel.
> That did not work this time (of which I now know WHY it didn't work)
> so after reading the man pages, the handbook on the freebsd.org
> website, I still can't get it to work.
> I have done the following things:
> Recompiled the kernel with device sound.
> using kldload to load different sound drivers (didn't work)
> added snd_driver_load="YES" to loader.conf - with this i had a bit of
> success because once i started KDE i heard sound, but after that
> nothing would play.
> I've tried loading individual drivers into the loader.conf file, but
> with no success, of course I did skip some and I haven't yet tried
> putting anything into the hints file. But I'm hoping perhaps someone
> has a bit of advice before I break something :)
> 
> Analog Devices ADI 198x Integrated Audio
> That's the sound card I have, and of course on the hardware lists I
> didn't see that, but in previous versions of FreeBSD I was able to get
> sound to work, so my logic says that I should still be able to.
> 
> Anyways thanks in advance.
>