How do I tell which driver I need for sound?

Thu Oct 9 00:13:18 UTC 2014

Thanks for the tip, but sadly, no dice :-(

I just discovered another post which mentioned "dmidecode" - looking through that I see:

On Board Device 3 Information
        Type: Sound
        Status: Disabled
        Description:  Realtek High Definition Audio Device
...
Onboard Device
        Reference Designation:  AUDIO1
        Type: Sound
        Status: Disabled
        Type Instance: 1
        Bus Address: 0000:00:1b.0

so by the looks of it, the device(s) are disabled in the BIOS (which I sadly can't access due to a BIOS bug).

Thanks anyway,

Steve

On 09 Oct 2014, at 01:54, Waitman Gobble <gobble.wa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Try ports/audio/oss - it's a much newer version than oss in base. Many more features, and there's an x mixer that's really great. Caveat - might not use the drivers in ports/audio/oss if you have any sort of usb sound device (microphone, speakers, etc.) Last time I experimented with it would cause bad things to happen. (You can use the mixer and ossinfo tool without using the drivers in the port., eg. ossxmix and ossinfo)
> 
> Waitman
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Stephen Riehm <freebsd at opensauce.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm also a bit lost with this. (Yes I've also read the sound-setup handbook)
> My /boot/loader.conf consists of:
> 
> autoboot_delay="2"
> zfs_load="YES"
> sound_load="YES"                # Digital sound subsystem
> snd_hda_load="YES"              # Intel High Definition Audio (Controller)
> snd_driver_load="YES"           # All sound drivers
> 
> and even after multiple reboots, cat /dev/sndstat reports:
> 
> root:~ # cat /dev/sndstat
> Installed devices:
> root:~ #
> 
> and:
> 
> root:/boot # kldstat
> Id Refs Address            Size     Name
>  1   94 0xffffffff80200000 1618b88  kernel
>  2    1 0xffffffff81819000 24d888   zfs.ko
>  3    2 0xffffffff81a67000 6658     opensolaris.ko
>  4    1 0xffffffff81a6e000 3fe8     snd_driver.ko
>  5    2 0xffffffff81a72000 89c0     snd_vibes.ko
>  6    2 0xffffffff81a7b000 7918     snd_via82c686.ko
>  7    2 0xffffffff81a83000 83d0     snd_t4dwave.ko
>  8    4 0xffffffff81a8c000 2850     snd_spicds.ko
>  9    2 0xffffffff81a8f000 a788     snd_solo.ko
> 10    5 0xffffffff81a9a000 60c8     snd_sbc.ko
> 11    2 0xffffffff81aa1000 80d0     snd_sb8.ko
> 12    2 0xffffffff81aaa000 8120     snd_sb16.ko
> 13    2 0xffffffff81ab3000 14e88    snd_neomagic.ko
> 14    3 0xffffffff81ac8000 16850    snd_mss.ko
> 15    2 0xffffffff81adf000 e7d0     snd_maestro3.ko
> 16    2 0xffffffff81aee000 d598     snd_maestro.ko
> 17    2 0xffffffff81afc000 7268     snd_fm801.ko
> 18    2 0xffffffff81b04000 a8b0     snd_ess.ko
> 19    2 0xffffffff81b0f000 c9b8     snd_envy24ht.ko
> 20    2 0xffffffff81b1c000 dfd0     snd_envy24.ko
> 21    2 0xffffffff81b2a000 fdf8     snd_ds1.ko
> 22    2 0xffffffff81b3a000 82b0     snd_cs4281.ko
> 23    2 0xffffffff81b43000 a308     snd_atiixp.ko
> 24    2 0xffffffff81b4e000 8ee8     snd_als4000.ko
> 25    2 0xffffffff81b57000 b880     snd_ad1816.ko
> 
> (no snd_hda in there?)
> 
> I'm running 10.0 STABLE on an Intel NUC D54250WYK (amd64)
> 
> Thanks for any insights!
> 
> Steve
> 
> On 09 Oct 2014, at 01:07, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 8 Oct 2014, David Benfell wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 03:39:57PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 8 Oct 2014, David Benfell wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> For some reason, sound has stopped working and I assume I should
> >>>> reload the driver. But which one?
> >>>
> >>> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html
> >>
> >> Been there. There is no obvious match between the hardware I have and
> >> the kernel modules I have available.
> >
> > The important part is
> >  cat /dev/sndstat
> >
> > But for most motherboards, adding
> >  snd_hda_load="YES"
> >
> > to /boot/loader.conf is enough.
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