PCM not appearing in /dev ?

Jeremy Faulkner gldisater at gldis.ca
Mon Oct 18 21:14:33 PDT 2004


On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 02:54, Brian Bobowski wrote:
> Okay, I recently got a nice Gateway 510S. I found that my Sound Blaster Live! 
> Value, for whatever reason, causes Windows XP to hang if it is installed. 
> Thus, I've been staying with the onboard sound card.
> 
> However, I'm having trouble getting that to work under FreeBSD now that I 
> finally shrunk a partition to make room. On boot, the following was reported:
> 
> -----
> pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 31.5 (no driver attached)
> -----
> 
> After a bit of poking around, I discovered that kldload'ing snd_driver, after 
> a bunch of false starts, produced:
> 
> -----
> pcm0: <Intel ICH5 (82801EB)> mem 0xfebff800-0xfebff8ff,0xfebffc00-0xfebffdff 
> irq 17 at device 31.5 on pci0
> pcm0: <Analog Devices AD1981B AC97 Codec>
> -----
> 
> kldunload'ed that, and kldload'ed snd_ich instead; same results. kldstat 
> reports that snd_pcm loaded as well.
> 
> However, pcm0 doesn't exist in /dev.
> 

/dev/dspXX are what will appear in /dev, not pcm

Trust /dev/sndstat, it knows best.
-- 
Jeremy Faulkner <gldisater at gldis.ca>
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