device.hints help

[dgmm]

On Thursday 31 March 2005 21:03, Alejandro Pulver wrote:
> I have two sound cards:
>
> SiS 7012 (C-Media Electronics CMI9739 AC97 Codec) - 'snd_ich'
> Genius Sound Maker Value 5.1 (CMedia CMI8738)     - 'snd_cmi'
>
> The first is integrated in the motherboard, and it is detected first and
> used as the default output device (pcm0). The second it detected after
> the first, so it is used as the second output device (pcm1).
>
> I want to use my second sound card as the default output device. I tried
> using the loader.conf variables "*_after" and "*_before", but they
> always load them before booting the kernel, so the integrated card is
> detected first and assigned to the default output device (pcm0). So I
> have the drivers as modules, and load the driver for the second card
> when booting the kernel, and then from the command line I load the
> driver for the integrated card.
>
> Is it possible to put the sound card PCI addresses manually in
> 'device.hints'? How?
>
> Here is the relevant output of 'pciconf -vl' (after loading the
> drivers in the desired order):
>
> pcm1 at pci0:2:7:  class=0x040100 card=0x70121849 chip=0x70121039 rev=0xa0
> hdr=0x00    vendor   = 'Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS)'
>     device   = 'SiS7012 PCI Audio Accelerator'
>     class    = multimedia
>     subclass = audio
>
> pcm0 at pci0:9:0:  class=0x040100 card=0x011113f6 chip=0x011113f6 rev=0x10
> hdr=0x00    vendor   = 'C-Media Electronics Inc.'
>     device   = 'CMI8738/PCI C3DX PCI Audio Chip中国'
>     class    = multimedia
>     subclass = audio
>
> I am posting this question again because I did not get a response. If I
> should ask this question somewhere else please inform me.

I'm no expert but...

You now have the sound cards ni the order you want by loading the CMedia via 
the kernel and the SiS manually.

Can you add the SiS one via /etc/rc.conf?

Add kldload snd_sis (or whatever the SiS sound module is called)

or by adding the relevant bits to /boot/loader.conf

eg

sound_load="YES"
snd_SiS_load="YES"
(or whatever the SiS sound module is called)

or if none are complied into the kernel, try either method above with the 
module loads listed in the order you want them.

hey, it might even work :-)

-- 
Dave