Sound Card Issues

Jason A. Crome crome at devnetinc.com
Tue Sep 16 16:53:29 PDT 2003


I've recently installed FreeBSD 5.1 release, and am having great difficulty 
getting my Soundblaster Audigy to work.  I have attempted to enable both the 
pcm and sbc devices in my kernel configuration file, but to no avail.  dmesg 
| grep pcm yields nothing.  Does anyone know what I can do to enable support 
for my sound card?  Does it not emulate earlier versions of Soundblaster 
cards?

My current kernel configuration file is attached.

Thanks in advance,
Jason A Crome 

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#
# DAEMON - Kernel configuration for FreeBSD desktop.
#

machine		i386
cpu		I686_CPU
ident		DAEMON

options		CPU_ATHLON_SSE_HACK
options 	SCHED_4BSD		#4BSD scheduler
options 	INET			#InterNETworking
options		IPSEC
options		IPSEC_ESP
options 	FFS			#Berkeley Fast Filesystem
options 	SOFTUPDATES		#Enable FFS soft updates support
options 	UFS_ACL			#Support for access control lists
options 	UFS_DIRHASH		#Improve performance on big directories
options 	MD_ROOT			#MD is a potential root device
options 	NFSCLIENT		#Network Filesystem Client
options 	NFSSERVER		#Network Filesystem Server
options 	NFS_ROOT		#NFS usable as root device, requires NFSCLIENT
options 	MSDOSFS			#MSDOS Filesystem
options 	CD9660			#ISO 9660 Filesystem
options 	PROCFS			#Process filesystem (requires PSEUDOFS)
options 	PSEUDOFS		#Pseudo-filesystem framework
options 	COMPAT_43		#Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!]
options 	COMPAT_FREEBSD4		#Compatible with FreeBSD4
options 	KTRACE			#ktrace(1) support
options 	SYSVSHM			#SYSV-style shared memory
options 	SYSVMSG			#SYSV-style message queues
options 	SYSVSEM			#SYSV-style semaphores
options 	_KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING #Posix P1003_1B real-time extensions
options 	KBD_INSTALL_CDEV	# install a CDEV entry in /dev
options 	AHC_REG_PRETTY_PRINT	# Print register bitfields in debug
					# output.  Adds ~128k to driver.
options 	AHD_REG_PRETTY_PRINT	# Print register bitfields in debug
					# output.  Adds ~215k to driver.
options		QUOTA

# Debugging for use in -current
options 	INVARIANT_SUPPORT	#Extra sanity checks of internal structures, required by INVARIANTS

# Bus drivers ;)
device		isa
device		eisa
device		pci

# Floppy drives
device		fdc

# ATA and ATAPI devices
device		ata
device		atadisk
device		atapicd
#device		pst
options 	ATA_STATIC_ID		#Static device numbering

# SCSI peripherals
device		scbus		# SCSI bus (required)
device		da		# Direct Access (disks)

# atkbdc0 controls both the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse
device		atkbdc		# AT keyboard controller
device		atkbd		# AT keyboard
device		psm		# PS/2 mouse

# Terminals and displays
device		vga		# VGA video card driver
device		splash		# Splash screen and screen saver support
device		sc
device		agp		# support several AGP chipsets

# Floating point support - do not disable.
device		npx

# Serial (COM) ports
device		sio		# 8250, 16[45]50 based serial ports

# Parallel port
device		ppc
device		ppbus		# Parallel port bus (required)
device		lpt		# Printer
device		plip		# TCP/IP over parallel
device		ppi		# Parallel port interface device
#device		vpo		# Requires scbus and da

# PCI Ethernet NICs that use the common MII bus controller code.
# NOTE: Be sure to keep the 'device miibus' line in order to use these NICs!
device		miibus		# MII bus support
device		xl		# 3Com 3c90x (``Boomerang'', ``Cyclone'')

# Pseudo devices - the number indicates how many units to allocate.
device		random		# Entropy device
device		loop		# Network loopback
device		ether		# Ethernet support
device		tun		# Packet tunnel.
device		pty		# Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc)
device		md		# Memory "disks"
device 		sl
device		ppp

# USB support
device		uhci		# UHCI PCI->USB interface
device		ohci		# OHCI PCI->USB interface
device		usb		# USB Bus (required)
#device		udbp		# USB Double Bulk Pipe devices
device		ugen		# Generic
device		uhid		# "Human Interface Devices"
device		ukbd		# Keyboard
device		ulpt		# Printer
device		umass		# Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus and da
device		ums		# Mouse
device		urio		# Diamond Rio 500 MP3 player
device		uscanner	# Scanners

# FireWire support
device		firewire	# FireWire bus code
device		sbp		# SCSI over FireWire (Requires scbus and da)

# Sound Card
device		pcm
device		midi
device		seq



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