Standard sbc and pcm support in GENERIC kernel?

Narvi narvi at haldjas.folklore.ee
Sun Mar 7 12:00:46 PST 2004


On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Daniel Lang wrote:

> Hi,
>
> David Raistrick wrote on Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 08:27:56AM -0800:
> [..]
> > kldload snd_driver
> >
> > is of course the correct way to do it.  FWIW, kldunload snd_driver does
> > /not/ unload all of the modules that kldload snd_driver loads.
> [..]
>
> snd_driver is a module that contains _all_ drivers,
> thus you have the best chance to get sound working.
> Unloading it, will of course unload the whole module with
> all drivers. There is no way to leave one of the drivers
> in the kernel.
>
> I agree, that there is not much documentation which driver
> module supports which sound device (or I was not successful
> to dig that up).
>
> However, you can determine the correct module, by subsequently
> loading and unloading each individual driver module. The one
> which attached to your sound device and actually works
> (check /dev/sndstat as well) is obviously the correct one.
>

And you really want this to be something somebody new to FreeBSD and
possibly unix has to go through to get sound working (afetr finding the
documentation, of course)???

> Not a very efficient way, but it works. :)
>
> Best regards,
>  Daniel
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>


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