Curious sound problem in 5.2.1-R

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

Doug Poland wrote:

>>Thanks Aaron, that's all I needed to do.  If you don't mind, how does
>>a mere mortal determine that the snd_ich.ko is the module for an Intel
>>ICH5 82801EB sound chip?
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>
>i'm quite sure i figured it out the "long" way.  However, it was quick and
>dirty, and should work on any system I think...
>
>1) I installed, xmms (or any program to play audio I think would work)
>2) ran a short shell script as follows:
>
>cd $MODULES_DIRECTORY  # /modules on 4.x and /boot/kernel on 5.x
>for f in snd_*; do kldload $f; done #this loads every possible sound module
>
>3) play music with xmms
>4) while music is playing execute the following:
>
>cd $MODULES_DIRECTORY
>for f in snd_*; do kldunload $f; done #this unloads all snd modules,
>however the one in use fails :)
>
>5) kldstat # to view current loaded modules.
>
>I'm sure I could just have looked it up somewhere, but I'm backwards.
>Aaron
>
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Actually Aaron, I find that enlightening, resourceful,
and rather amusing (in a good way ;-)

You have the hacker nature, I think....

Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.