onboard sound does not work

Andrew Hall halla3 at corp.earthlink.net
Mon Feb 9 13:30:08 PST 2004


On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 16:24, Nicolas wrote:
> On Monday 09 February 2004 21.50, Andrew Hall wrote:
> > 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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> Hi.
> I tried to do what you suggested and I get:
> kldload: can't load snd_ich.ko: File exists
> I have also tried with options PNPBIOS before but that is already in 5.2, I 
> was told.
> I will look in the archives.
> Thank You for answering!!
> Gaf

I can't guarantee success, but I would kldunload snd_driver.ko and
snd_maestro, then kldload snd_pcm.ko and snd_ich.ko.   I use the ich
driver, and thats the only two sound modules I load. 

Drew



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