vt8237 chipset & freebsd 5.3 = no audio

Gabriel Latour gabriell at interplusonline.com
Thu Jan 13 12:32:04 PST 2005


Hi!

I just installed FreeBSD 5.3 on a VIA KM400 based chipset motherboard. 
The audio is the VT8237 audio chipset.

No sound is produced!!!

#kldload snd_via8233.ko

#cat > /dev/sndstat
FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
Installed devices:
pcm0: <VIA VT8237> at io 0xeb00 irq 22 kld snd_via8233 (5p/1r/0v 
channels duplex default)

#dmesg | grep pcm
pcm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
pcm0: <Unknown AC97 Codec (id = 0x56494170)>
pcm0: detached

I tried that hack with no luck:

--- sys/dev/sound/pcm/ac97.c.orig       Tue Nov 11 23:15:17 2003
+++ sys/dev/sound/pcm/ac97.c    Tue Aug 10 23:58:11 2004
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@
          { 0x41445360, 0x00, 0, "AD1885",        0 },
          { 0x41445361, 0x00, 0, "AD1886",        ad1886_patch },
          { 0x41445362, 0x00, 0, "AD1887",        0 },
+       { 0x41445368, 0x00, 0, "AD1888",        ad198x_patch },
          { 0x41445363, 0x00, 0, "AD1886A",       0 },
          { 0x41445370, 0x00, 0, "AD1980",        ad198x_patch },
          { 0x41445372, 0x00, 0, "AD1981A",       0 },

Now can somebody help me?

Thanks!

-- 
Gabriel Latour
UNIX system administrator
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