Sound on Dell Dimension 8300 (FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE)

[Amit Kumar Saha]

Yup, I already have "device pcm" in my config file. The bootup procedure
does not seem to recognize the device.

amit

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On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:

>
> * Amit Kumar Saha [2005-03-30 11:30 -0600]
> >  	I am trying to enable the builtin sound card present in Dell
> >  Dimension 8300 but cant seem to get it done. As far as I remember, in
> >  FreeBSD 5.3 it can be done simply by having the following two options in
> >  the kernel config file:
> >
> >  device sound
> >  device snd_ich
> >
> >  However, FreeBSD 5.1 does not recognize any of these even (Even man sound
> >  or man snd_ich does not work even though it should work on any FreeBSD 5.*
> >  So I guess I have to give some hardware hints in order to
>
>
> You need the old-style (aka 4.x style) "device pcm" in versions prior to
> 5.3-REL (maybe 5.2.1). However, you should REALLY consider upgrading to
> either 5.3-REL or 5.4-PRE as ALOT of stuff has been done since 5.1-REL
>
>
>
> Svein Halvor
>