sound problems

Kyle Lafkoff kyle.lafkoff at gmail.com
Tue May 10 20:39:21 PDT 2005


heh, i tried this before and i had no luck, nothing would list when i
``cat /dev/sndstat'' but seems to work now

this is after i stopped using my cardbus ethernet card, which was
required for internet access before i configured wifi access in my
house today.

thanks.

On 10 May 2005 16:21:45 -0400, Lowell Gilbert
<freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
> Kyle Lafkoff <kyle.lafkoff at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > loaded sound / snd_ess
> >
> > dmesg shows:
> >
> > pcm0: <ESS Technology Maestro-2E> port 0xd800-0xd8ff irq 5 at device 8.0 on pci0
> > pcm0: cannot allocate DMA memory
> > device_attach: pcm0 attach returned 6
> > pcm0: <ESS Technology Maestro-2E> port 0xd800-0xd8ff irq 5 at device 8.0 on pci0
> > pcm0: cannot allocate DMA memory
> >
> > ???
> 
> Looks like snd_ess isn't the right driver.
> 
> Try the recommendation from the handbook:  load snd_driver
> (which loads *all* of the drivers) and see which one it
> uses (and whether it works).
>


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