Sound server issue

[David Wassman]

I have tried all that (recompile the kernel with the devices pcm and sbc 
added) but when I type

dmesg | grep ESS

Nothing happens. I am going to try loading sbc manually and not PNP and see 
if that works. Any other suggestions?



>From: Christian Hiris <4711 at chello.at>
>To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>CC: "David Wassman" <dmwassman at hotmail.com>, "Robert Covell" 
><rcovell at rolet.com>
>Subject: Re: Sound server issue
>Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 02:20:23 +0200
>
>On Monday 03 May 2004 19:52, David Wassman wrote:
> > >From HP/Compaq website the soundcard driver for Windows is ESS
> >
> > 1869/1887/1888 Audio Driver. I am guessing then the soundcard is ESS
> > (whatever that means). I see on the handbook that ESS Solo-1/1E is
> > supported. Does this driver work and how do you get FreeBSD to load it?
> >
>
>I have an ESS1869 card running in an old Compaq Presario Desktop on freebsd
>5.1. i added devices pcm and sbc to my kernel config and built a new 
>kernel:
>
>device          pcm
>device          sbc
>
>the soundcard has been identified as:
>
># dmesg | grep ESS
>sbc0: <ESS ES1869> at port 0x330-0x331,0x388-0x38b,0x220-0x22f irq 5 drq 
>0,1
>on isa0
>pcm0: <ESS 18xx DSP> on sbc0
>
># cat /dev/sndstat
>FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
>Installed devices:
>pcm0: <ESS 1869 DSP> at io 0x220 irq 5 drq 1:0 bufsz 4096 (1p/1r/0v 
>channels
>duplex default)
>
>some more information is available via 'man 4 sbc'.
>
>regards
>ch
>
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