No sound on gx280 with 5.4

Rich Winkel rich at math.missouri.edu
Tue Jul 19 23:13:14 GMT 2005


According to Greg Barniskis:
[ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ]
> Rich Winkel wrote:
> > I have a GX280 shipped 11/30/2004.  The 5.4 kernel doesn't probe any
> > sound device.  Has anyone gotten this working?
> 
> The GENERIC (default) kernel doesn't have sound compiled in, but it 
> should be easy to get going with loadable kernel modules.
> 
> # kldload snd_driver
> 
> should probe all known sound devices, then
> 
> # cat /dev/sndstat
> 
> should tell you what specific module to name in loader.conf so that 
> it is automatically available on subsequent reboots
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html

Thank you!!  I had "device sound" in my kernel config, but I guess
this must be the way to do things now...

Rich



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