Sound -- but which?

Brooks Davis brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Tue Sep 14 16:57:42 PDT 2004


On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 09:23:59AM +0930, Adam Smith wrote:
> I don't know exactly which sound card I have, because I have a home-brand
> laptop.  I  have compiled 'device       sound' in my kernel, but have not
> added any device-specific drivers at this stage, because I am having
> trouble identifying my hardware.
> 
> If I 'kldload snd_driver' my /dev/dsp exists, but I have gone through most
> of the drivers in /usr/src/sys/modules/sound/driver and loaded these
> manually (ie 'kldload snd_emu10k1' for example) and none of the 60% or so
> that I tried give me a /dev/dsp.
> 
> dmesg reports:
> 
> pcm0: <Intel ICH3 (82801CA)> port 0xe100-0xe13f,0xe000-0xe0ff irq 11 at
> device 31.5 on pci0
> pcm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> pcm0: <Cirrus Logic CS4299 AC97 Codec>
> 
> when I 'kldload snd_driver' so *one* of these drivers *MUST* be presenting
> me with a /dev/dsp.  The closest match I can find is the driver snd_cs4281,
> however loading this on it's own also doesn't give me a /dev/dsp.
> 
> So what is giving me my /dev/dsp?

For me at least, cating /dev/sndstat shows the module snd_maestro3:

Installed devices:
pcm0: <ESS Technology Maestro3> at io 0x1800 irq 5 kld snd_maestro3 (4p/1r/0v channels duplex default)

Off hand, I'd guess snd_ich.

-- Brooks

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