Standard sbc and pcm support in GENERIC kernel?

Matthew Seaman m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Wed Mar 3 09:39:32 PST 2004


On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:27:08PM +0100, Jared ''Danger'' Earle wrote:
> Freddie Cash wrote:
> >Something that has always stumped me about FreeBSD, especially about
> >people moving from Linux to FreeBSD, is the belief that one *must*
> >recompile the kernel for sound support.  Why??  
> 
> Because that's what the manual tells us to do ...
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-device.html

Right after it says "The easiest way is to simply load a kernel module
for your sound card with kldload(8)."  Which is just one sentence out
of a whole page full of instructions about exactly how to recompile
your kernel, but it is there.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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