Gateway MX3215 laptop running fbsd 6.1 current, no sound.

[Julian Elischer]

Matthew_Northcott at Dell.com wrote:
>  have been hacking at this freebsd install for over 3 weeks now. Got
> everything working perfectly but sound. Been playing with it for awhile
> and have tried all of the config options i could imagine. Now gateway
> doesnt shed to much light on the soundcard/chipset thats in this system.

Shouldn't you have a Dell?

what does pciconf -lv say?

> 
> 
> it does tell me these two bits of info. 
> Chipset: Via VN800 
> Audio: AC '97 2.3 Compliant Audio 
> Built-in Speakers 
> 
> So i tried native drivers, but no go. So i then downloaded and got OSS
> installed ( latest version from the website) it does see my sound card
> as VIA VT8233/8235/8237. But when I go to play sound eaither ussing
> osstest or an application like xmms the system thinks it's playing to
> the sound out, but i get no sound from the speakers. Adjusted volume
> using ossxmix, but to no avail. Anyone ever ran into anyhting like this
> or is using this same system? Any help would be much appreciated.
>  
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