CORRECTION - Sound Not Working After SRC Update

[Alexander Leidinger]

Ariff Abdullah <ariff at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 21:50:22 -0500
> Rob Clark <vx2 at tds.net> wrote:
>>
>> I did what you suggested starting with es137x.1.c - which
>> worked.  I also tried the other files ...2.c,
>> ...3.c, and ...4.c -- all which worked also.
>>
>> If you want, I can do further testing tomorrow - retry each
>> again and log the output of:
>> /dev/sndstat
>> pciconf -vl
>>
> It's ok, you don't have to do that.
>
> Your soundcard seems do not have joystick, or probably its joystick
> support is broken (I would favour the former).
>
> Alex, Jean, any opinion about this? Since this must be done
> early during attach process, IMHO there are 3 ways to deal with it:
> 1) Disable joystick entirely
> 2) Put some #ifdef
> 3) Use kernel hint to toggle it (hint.pcm.<unit>.joystick_enabled)

Isn't there a 4th option? Autodetecting it ("in case of error, try without
joystick")?

If not: the hint seems to be the most sensible option to me.
Default: enabled?

Bye,
Alexander.

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