Sound problem

[Chris]

Eduardo Huertas wrote:
> Hi Everybody
> 
> I have a SONY Vaio PCG-FXA36 and have worked very well
> with
> 
> FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #0
> 
> Except with the sound card :-(
> 
> Sometimes it does work and others simply not.
> 
> When it doesn't dmesg shows me this:
> 
> -----------
> pcm0: <VIA VT82C686A> port
> 0x1c50-0x1c53,0x1c54-0x1c57,0x1000-
> 0x10ff irq 5 at device 7.5 on pci0
> via: codec busy
> via: codec busy
> via: codec busy
> via: codec busy
> via: codec busy
> via: codec busy
> pcm0: ac97 codec invalid or not present (id ==
> ffffffff)
> device_probe_and_attach: pcm0 attach returned 6
> -----------
> 
> And KDE sends me this message:
> -----------
> Sound server informational message:
> Error while initializing the sound driver:
> device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or
> directory)
> The sound server will continue, using the null output
> device.
> ------------
> 
> Attached is dmesg when everything is OK.
> 
> Thanks for your time and your sugestions.
> 
> 
> 
> -edu-


Try adding this to your kernel, then recompile it, install it.

device  pcm

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Best regards,
Chris