onboard sound does not work

Andrew Hall halla3 at corp.earthlink.net
Mon Feb 9 12:51:08 PST 2004


On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 15:24, Nathan Kinkade wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 03:47:31PM +0100, by way of Gaf <moak at bredband.net> wrote:
> > Hello.
> > I am a newbie to both unix and FreeBSD. I am trying to configure my onboard
> > sond without success.
> >  My motherboard: ASUS P4S800-MX
> > Audio spec: ADI AD1888 6channel audio codec.
> > 
> > pciconf -lv says:
> > pcm0 at pci0:2:7:  class=0x040100 card=0x810d1043 chip=0x70121039 rev=0xa0
> > hdr=0x00
> >     vendor   = 'Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS)'
> >     device   = 'SiS7012 PCI Audio Accelerator'
> >     class    = multimedia
> >     subclass = audio
> > 
> > dmesg:
> > pcm0: <SiS 7012> port 0xa000-0xa07f,0xa400-0xa4ff irq 18 at device 2.7 on
> >  pci0 pcm0: <Unknown AC97 Codec (id = 0x41445368)>
> > 
> > I tried kldload snd_driver.ko but
> > kldstat says:
> > Id Refs Address    Size     Name
> >  1   35 0xc0400000 37fd84   kernel
> >  2    1 0xc0780000 51a18    acpi.ko
> >  3    1 0xc2c24000 8000     ipfw.ko
> >  4    1 0xc2c62000 19000    linux.ko
> >  5    1 0xc3306000 2000     snd_driver.ko
> >  6    1 0xc3308000 8000     snd_maestro3.ko
> > 
> > I have device pcm in my kernel.
> > Is there something more you need to know??
> > I have read man pcm, the handbook and complete freebsd but I can t figure it
> > out. I still think that everything is a bit confusing because i am not very
> > good at computers and i am sure that I miss something fundamental.
> > Hope that somebody can direct me to what i am missing.
> > Many thanks Gaf
> 

I think you need snd_ich.ko. Run 'kldload /boot/kernel/snd_ich.ko' and
try again.  Search the freebsd list archives for 'sis 7012' and you'll
find a lot of relevant entries. 

Drew



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