sound with -CURRENT

[Odhiambo Washington]

* On 22/05/07 19:44 +0200, Ed Schouten wrote:
| * Odhiambo Washington <wash at wananchi.com> wrote:
| > Okay, not exactly with current, but I have not been able to get sound 
| > working with either 6.x or -CURRENT. I have the present case - an HP
| > DC7600 on which I run -current, but I also have those Creative SoundBlaster
| > cards that support 5.1 surround at home, which I have never managed
| > to get to work.
| > 
| > Let's concentrate on the present system that runs 7.x.
| > 
| > I am attaching dmesg.boot and the output of `pciconf -lv`
| > I am using the GENERIC kernel on this one, so far.
| > 
| > Is there something that I need to do to get the sound card detected - 
| > like perhaps load some modules?
| > 
| > Perhaps I am simply running unsupported hardware :)
| > 
| > [...]
| > none0 at pci0:27:0:	class=0x040300 card=0x3010103c chip=0x27d88086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
| >     vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
| >     device     = '82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio'
| >     class      = multimedia
| 
| | $ whatis 'high definition audio'
| | snd_hda(4)               - Intel High Definition Audio bridge device driver
| 
| A `kldload snd_hda' should suffice. snd_ich should also work, but
| doesn't make use of the high definition audio functionality.

This makes me look so so dumb :)
I did not think I could get the answer just by using `whatis`!

Now, can this driver support my Creative SoundBlaster? I will have to 
try it out.

Thank you so much.


-Wash

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