Any chance to get my sound card to work ?

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 22:06:50 +0800
> From: Ariff Abdullah <skywizard at time.net.my>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org
> 
> 
> On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 21:38:22 +0800
> David Xu <davidxu at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > I have the sound card as the following mail said:
> > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=181707+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2003/freebsd-stable/20031214.freebsd-stable
> > 
> > But I didn't find that it works, I have loaded snd_es137x.ko:
> > 
> > tiger# kldload snd_es137x.ko
> > pcm0: <Creative SB AudioPCI CT4730> port 0xe400-0xe41f,0xe000-0xe03f
> > irq 17 at device 12.0 on pci0
> > pcm0: <Creative EV1938 AC97 Codec>
> > 
> > The driver seems identified the device, but no sound at all when I
> > try to use it.
> >
> 
> You may try this patch:
> http://staff.mybsd.org.my/skywizard/FreeBSD/es137x.c.diff
> 
> It's pathetic, ugly, but does it job to properly initialize mixer
> on ev1938 chip. Perhaps somebody can really clean it up.

Cool! For the first time I can get my ES1371 to work on boot after a
power cycle.

Thanks, Ariff!
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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