What sound drive should I use?

[Roland Smith]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 06:00:49PM +0400, Oleksandr Semenko wrote:
> I have problems with sound on FreeBSD 5.3 on KDE 3.3.0. 
  
> My ASUS P4P800SE motherboard has "ADI AD (Analog Device) 1985 Sound
> MAX 6-channel CODEC" sound card. I don't know if it is supported. In
> the list of supported sound drivers I found snd_ad_1816 driver, but it
> doesn't work with my card.
  
> System detects my sound card correctly when I use the "kldload
> snd_drivers" command: "Analog Device AD1985 Ac 97 Codec".  But there
> is no such driver like snd_ad1985, only snd_ad1816!!!
<snip>
> 2. There is no such bad message when I load all!!! drivers: "kldload
> snd_drivers" or add "snd_driver_load="YES"" in /boot/loader.conf
> file. But still no sound!  On the other hand several empty /dev/dsp
> files appears: dsp0.0;dsp0.1;dspr0.1;dspW0.0;dspW0.1.

Device files are special files that do not really have a size. If you're
doing ls -l you're seeing device numbers, not file sizes.

> And the following record appears in /dev/sndstat: 
> "FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) 
> Installed devices: 
> pcm0: <Intel ICH5 (82801EB)> at io 0xfebff800, 0xfebff400 irq 17 bufsz
> 16384 kld snd_ich 
> (1p/1r/0v channels duplex default)" 

Looks like the system picks manages to load a driver (snd_ich). If you
get no sound in kde, I suspect that the permissions on the sound devices
are not correct, or that kde is looking for the wrong device.

If you use xmms, and point it to /dev/dsp0.0, do you get sound?

Roland
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