configuring Creative SB on Freebsd 5.3

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

Paulo Fonseca Jr. wrote:

>Sorry, (again)
>
>My kernel was compiled with "device sound" and "device snd_sbc" after install 
>a Creative Sound Blaster and verify that my on board soundmax is not 
>supported by freebsd (handbook, section sound-setup - Audio devices). Even 
>thus, with Creative card, the pcm0 is recognized by dmesg but appears detached 
>and /dev/dsp and /dev/sndstat not exist.
>
>any idea?
>
>thanks all,
>Zumba.
>

Hmm, three drivers exist to run Sound Blasters. You might
try kldload(8)'ing each in turn and trying again.

    [555] Fri 10.Dec.2004 12:03:06
    [kadmin at archangel][/boot/modules]
    ls | grep sb | grep snd
    snd_sb16.ko*
    snd_sb8.ko*
    snd_sbc.ko*

Of course, I'd think that an unsupported onboard chip
is rather rare in 5.X ... but you don't mention what you're
running.

If you installed a Blaster, did you disable the onboard
chip in the BIOS?

You should probably post your `uname -a`, the relevant
sections of dmesg(8), and a step by step listing of actions
you've taken to questions@ if you really want good help,
though :-)

Kevin Kinsey