AC97 sound support

[Gary Schenk]

On Monday 03 November 2003 12:54 pm, Jon Mercer wrote:
> Just curious, because I posted a similar problem about AC/97
> recently. What desktop are you using? I am using gnome2 ATMo with
> no problems. Had a problem under KDE that I couldn't work around
> about dsp problems, and wondered if this was something similar?
>
> Jon Mercer

I'm using KDE 3.1.2. When I start KDE I get the error message about 
/dev/dsp. I haven't worried about that yet. 

Jesse Guardiani wrote that he had his working correctly. All of the 
modules he suggested are already installed. When I 'kldload snd_ich' 
it returns 'Can't load: File exists.' yet it does not show on 
'kldstat' as here:
bash-2.05b$ kldstat
Id Refs Address    Size     Name
 1    7 0xc0100000 5f2798   kernel
 2    1 0xc06f3000 4a30c    acpi.ko
 3    1 0xc4594000 18000    linux.ko

I haven't tried cdcontrol. Since 'dmesg| grep pcm' returns nothing, I 
figure no sound is running.

FreeBSD does not require MAKEDEV anymore, correct?

> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Gary Schenk" <gwschenk at socal.rr.com>
> > To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> > Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 5:43 PM
> > Subject: AC97 sound support
> >
> >>I've just installed 5.1 -RELEASE on my new machine, a HP a350n.
> >> For sound this computer uses onboard RealTek AC97 Audio.
> >>
> >>I went throught the normal installation steps, then ran the steps
> >> for soundcard configuration in the manual. I ran kldload. I
> >> recompiled the kernel with 'device pcm'. I tried 'options
> >> PNPBIOS', at which point I received a message about an unkown
> >> option.
> >>
> >>dmesg | grep pci gives me this line:
> >>pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 31.5 (no driver attached)
> >>
> >>dmesg | grep pcm returns nothing.
> >>
> >>This has all been seen on this list before. I searched c.u.b.f.m
> >> and -questions and have seen this come up before, but I never
> >> saw a resolution.
> >>
> >>My question is:
> >>
> >>Does all this mean the FreeBSD does not support onboard Realtek
> >> AC97 Audio? I'd just like to know before I go out and buy a
> >> soundcard. It is not that I'm cheap, I just like finding out how
> >> FreeBSD works. :-) However it looks like a Soundblaster Live is
> >> the answer.
> >>
> >>Thanks for the help in the past and future.
> >>
> >>uname returns:
> >>FreeBSD fuzz.socal.rr.com 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Sun
> >> Nov 2 22:56:57 PST 2003
> >>root at fuzz.socal.rr.com:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/FUZZ  i386
> >>
> >>Gary Schenk
> >>
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