two soundcards - one works

Bjorn Eikeland bjorn at eikeland.info
Sat Jan 31 05:46:36 PST 2004


I'm fairly new to FreeBSD, and I'm trying to set it up to replace windows, 
only bits left is sound, video and tv-out.

I've got two soundcards, one onboard AC'97 (on a asus A7V8X w/KT400) and a 
pci soundblaster 128 card. I've been using the pci card sending sound to 
the living room, (music & movies) and the onboard for everything else.

At first sound didnt work at all, but reading the handbook got one card 
working, and I've looked through the mailing list archives and google - 
couldnt fint anything on how to get the other working. (I havent tried the 
options PNPBIOS yet, as I want to keep the generic kernel till I'm done 
setting evrything up, and besides dmesg show the pci device so its a 
driver issue isnt it?)

Below you can find various outputs form dmesg, kldstat and /dev. If anyone 
needs more details to help please ask.

thanks for you time,
Bjorn

# kldload snd_driver.ko
# kldstat
Id Refs Address    Size     Name
  1   32 0xc0400000 5dff74   kernel
  2    1 0xc09e0000 51a18    acpi.ko
  3    1 0xc4af3000 19000    linux.ko
  4    1 0xc659e000 2000     snd_driver.ko
  5    1 0xc65a0000 4000     snd_ad1816.ko
  6   27 0xc65a4000 19000    snd_pcm.ko
  7    1 0xc65c4000 4000     snd_als4000.ko
  8    1 0xc65c8000 5000     snd_cmi.ko
  9    1 0xc65dd000 5000     snd_cs4281.ko
10    2 0xc65e2000 7000     snd_csa.ko
11    1 0xc65e9000 b000     snd_ds1.ko
12    1 0xc65f4000 6000     snd_emu10k1.ko
13    1 0xc65fa000 6000     snd_es137x.ko
14    2 0xc6600000 5000     snd_ess.ko
15    4 0xc6615000 4000     snd_sbc.ko
16    1 0xc6619000 4000     snd_fm801.ko
17    2 0xc661d000 a000     snd_mss.ko
18    1 0xc662b000 5000     snd_ich.ko
19    1 0xc6630000 7000     snd_maestro.ko
20    1 0xc6637000 8000     snd_maestro3.ko
21    1 0xc663f000 11000    snd_neomagic.ko
22    1 0xc6650000 4000     snd_sb8.ko
23    1 0xc6654000 4000     snd_sb16.ko
24    1 0xc6668000 5000     snd_solo.ko
25    1 0xc666d000 5000     snd_t4dwave.ko
26    1 0xc6672000 4000     snd_via82c686.ko
27    1 0xc6676000 5000     snd_vibes.ko
28    1 0xc6bed000 b000     ntfs.ko
# kldunload snd_driver
# kldstat
Id Refs Address    Size     Name
  1   10 0xc0400000 5dff74   kernel
  2    1 0xc09e0000 51a18    acpi.ko
  3    1 0xc4af3000 19000    linux.ko
  6    1 0xc65a4000 19000    snd_pcm.ko
13    1 0xc65fa000 6000     snd_es137x.ko
28    1 0xc6bed000 b000     ntfs.ko
#cat /dev/sndstat
FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
Installed devices:
pcm0: <Creative CT5880-E> at io 0xb000 irq 18 (1p/1r/0v channels duplex 
default)
# dmesg |grep pcm
pcm0: <Creative CT5880-E> port 0xb000-0xb03f at device 15.0 on pci0
pcm0: <SigmaTel STAC9708/11 AC97 Codec>
# dmesg | grep audio
pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 15.0 (no driver attached)
pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 17.5 (no driver attached)
# ls /dev/ds*
/dev/dsp0.0     /dev/dsp0.1     /dev/dspW0.0    /dev/dspW0.1    
/dev/dspr0.0
# ls /dev/mix*
/dev/mixer0


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