Loading sound drivers

[kyanh]

On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:47:15 +0000
af300wsm at gmail.com wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> My motherboard, an ASUS K8V-X, has a generic type sound chip on
> board, according to ASUS' specifications, it is an AD1980 chipset.
> The hardware notes, linked from the handbook, does not list this
> chipset but does list several Intel type HDA chipsets including one
> AD1981 chipset. Never the less, using the handbook instructions I
> loaded the meta sound driver and my chipset was identified as a
> via8233 chipset. The meta driver loaded many drivers into the
> kernel, but through trial and error I've discovered that only
> sound.ko and snd_via8233.ko need to be loaded. So, I put these two
> lines into /boot/loader.conf:
> 
> sound="YES"
> snd_via8233="YES"

The correct lines are

sound_load="YES"
snd_via8233_load="YES"

Regards,

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Ky Anh, Huynh
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