musicpd & kld sound

[Philip Hallstrom]

>
>>> I have an issue w/ mpd starting (trying to, anyway) before the kld for
>>> sound loads up, which causes mpd to fail loading . . then I have to  start 
>>> mpd at the command line.
>>> 
>>> I would like to set up sound in the kernel, but I have Aureal 8810 based
>>> sound on the MB and don't see a driver to use in the snd_"drvr" line
>>> in the config file.
>>> 
>>> is there a way to specify the order in which these items load ?
>>> 
>>> any clues appreciated . .
>
>> 
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/audio/aureal-kmod/pkg-descr
>> 
>> Should do it I think... been a long time since I used it, but I had a
>> couple of turtle beach cards that were 88x0 somethings and it worked
>> great.
>> 
>
> maybe I'm missing something . . I am using the aureal-kmod pkg you linked to, 
> but thought it only works as a kernel module (ie: not compliled into the 
> kernel) . . can I use this to compile a custom kernel ? how would I go about 
> it ?

No it's me... I read your message wrong.

You could change the startup script for mpd to parse the output of kldstat 
to determine if it's loaded and if not, sleep awhile...

-philip