Any way to probe snd card?

[Gary Kline]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:51:08PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Gary Kline wrote:
> >On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:16:00PM -0500, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote:
> >>On 2/14/07, Gary Kline <kline at tao.thought.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>       I'm pretty stunned at how well gnome2 works on my
> >>>       antique 400MHz backup system.  [[ gnome2-lite wouldn't go, for
> >>>       some reason.... [?] ]]  Anyway, I do have a sound card in this
> >>>       one, but which *.ko I load or compile is the question.  If
> >>>       memory serves, I think this has  a Matrox card.  I've tried
> >>>       adding a few sound [snd_*.ko] files, but no sound.  The OSS
> >>>       dialogs open, but the tests produce no sound..  Would the sound
> >>>       card show up in dmesg if there were a sound card hiding?
> >>>
> >>>       Any help out there?  This old box is an HP Kayak "XU/XW".
> >>
> >>I solved most of my sound problems by taking actions reading
> >>
> >>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html
> >>
> >>regards
> >>Dak
> >>
> >
> >	Hm.  I forgot about adding the "hints.*"; but catenating
> >	/dev/sndstat indicates that I use snd_sb16.ko and compiling that
> >	in gives me a bunch of fatal undefines.  So I added "snd_sbc"
> >	to the KERNCONF and am recompiling.  
> >
> >	Shouldn't be this hard; this worked with REdhat, just
> >	straightaway.  ....
> >
> >	gary
> 
> What model's the card (or what does pciconf -lv report at least)?


	This is strange.  A couple hours ago I kldloaded a few modules
	and saw that the card was my missing AWE64.  Now, when I load
	snd_sb16, it looks like an ISA SB 16.  It could be either.
	Note that if I load just snd_sb.ko, cat'ing /dev/sndstat returns
	zip.
	Still trying...

	gary


> -Garrett
> 
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