[Fwd: sound in CURRENT]

[K Chapman]

--- "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads at cox.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 19:13:13 +0200
> Christer Solskogen <solskogen at carebears.mine.nu>
> wrote:
> 
> > -----Forwarded Message-----
> > > From: Christer Solskogen
> <solskogen at carebears.mine.nu>
> > > To: freebsd-current at freebsd.org
> > > Subject: sound in CURRENT
> > > Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 16:26:03 +0200
> > > 
> > > FreeBSD funshine.carebears.net 5.3-BETA1 FreeBSD
> 5.3-BETA1 #1: Sat
> > > Aug 21 15:51:04 CEST 2004    
> > >
>
root at funshine.carebears.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FUNSHINE
>  amd64
> > > 
> > > I cant get sound working on my SB Live. 
> > > I have the following in kernel config:
> > > device          sound
> > > device          "snd_emu10k1"
> > > 
> > > It seems like I dont have any sound modules
> either in /boot/kernel
> > > (yeah, i know the modules are named snd_*)
> > > 
> > > (no need to CC: back to me. I`m subscribed)
> > 
> > Could this only be on amd64?
> 
> There are no sound modules on amd64 yet; sound
> *must* be compiled into
> the kernel.
> 
> I don't know about the SB Live; I thought it was
> supposed to be one of
> the better-supported cards.  Apparently not.  <sigh>
>  And to think I
> was on the verge of buying one recently in hopes of
> curing my own sound
> problems.
> 
> That being said, all I can add is that sound on
> amd64 appears to be
> seriously broken, with no fix in sight.  I've tried
> both the onboard
> sound (nVidia nForce3) and my old es1371 card (which
> works fine on my
> old i386 Athlon box), and both break down after a
> certain period of time
> with "pcm0:play:0: play interrupt timeout, channel
> dead", after which,
> sound is no longer useable until a reboot.

i dont use the nvidia chipset amd64 boards, i saw
enough reports from linux and freebsd folks to stay
away from those... the K8T800 chipset with onboard
sound works fine for me with freebsd/amd64.

=====
aaarrrggghhh!!!!
FreeBSD rocks


		
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