AC97 sound support

[Jon Mercer]

Just curious, because I posted a similar problem about AC/97 recently. 
What desktop are you using? I am using gnome2 ATMo with no problems. Had 
a problem under KDE that I couldn't work around about dsp problems, and 
wondered if this was something similar?

Jon Mercer

Wout A. wrote:
> Congratz,
> Have you tried this?
> # kldload snd_driver (This tries all sound drivers..one of them might
> work...)
> If this works, you might want to add the driver to the /boot/loader.conf,
> you can find an example in /boot/defaults/loader.conf .
> 
> Good Luck!
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gary Schenk" <gwschenk at socal.rr.com>
> To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 5:43 PM
> Subject: AC97 sound support
> 
> 
> 
>>I've just installed 5.1 -RELEASE on my new machine, a HP a350n. For
>>sound this computer uses onboard RealTek AC97 Audio.
>>
>>I went throught the normal installation steps, then ran the steps for
>>soundcard configuration in the manual. I ran kldload. I recompiled
>>the kernel with 'device pcm'. I tried 'options PNPBIOS', at which
>>point I received a message about an unkown option.
>>
>>dmesg | grep pci gives me this line:
>>pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 31.5 (no driver attached)
>>
>>dmesg | grep pcm returns nothing.
>>
>>This has all been seen on this list before. I searched c.u.b.f.m and
>>-questions and have seen this come up before, but I never saw a
>>resolution.
>>
>>My question is:
>>
>>Does all this mean the FreeBSD does not support onboard Realtek AC97
>>Audio? I'd just like to know before I go out and buy a soundcard. It
>>is not that I'm cheap, I just like finding out how FreeBSD works. :-)
>>However it looks like a Soundblaster Live is the answer.
>>
>>Thanks for the help in the past and future.
>>
>>uname returns:
>>FreeBSD fuzz.socal.rr.com 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Sun Nov
>>2 22:56:57 PST 2003
>>root at fuzz.socal.rr.com:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/FUZZ  i386
>>
>>Gary Schenk
>>
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