Sound on Dell Dimension 8300 (FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE)

[Tim Kellers]

If you have a file named snd_ich.ko in /boot/kernel/:
Try (as root)

#kldload snd_ich.ko

and see if your sound begins to work

(you can check the status of loaded modules with the command kldstat(8))


On Wednesday 30 March 2005 12:30 pm, Amit Kumar Saha wrote:
> Hi,
> 	I am trying to enable the builtin sound card present in Dell
> Dimension 8300 but cant seem to get it done. As far as I remember, in
> FreeBSD 5.3 it can be done simply by having the following two options in
> the kernel config file:
>
> device sound
> device snd_ich
>
> However, FreeBSD 5.1 does not recognize any of these even (Even man sound
> or man snd_ich does not work even though it should work on any FreeBSD 5.*
> So I guess I have to give some hardware hints in order to
>
> config MYCONFIG gives the following error report:
> =================================================
>
> config: Error: device "sound" is unknown
> config: Error: device "snd_ich" is unknown
>
> (/boot/kernel/ however has the files snd_ich.ko as well as snd_pcm.ko)
>
> The output of cat /dev/sndstat is as follows:
> =============================================
>
> FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
> Installed devices:
>
> The 'seems to be relevant part of dmesg' is here:
> =================================================
> pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 31.5 (no driver attached)
>
> The entire dmesg output is as follows:
> ================================
>
> <== START OF dmesg output
>
> Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project.
> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
> 	The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #3: Tue Oct 14 18:17:28 CDT 2003
>     root at monarch_amsaha.rice.edu:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/NEW
> Preloaded elf kernel "/boot/kernel/kernel" at 0xc0700000.
> Preloaded elf module "/boot/kernel/acpi.ko" at 0xc0700294.
> Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
> Timecounter "TSC"  frequency 3192009524 Hz
> CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz (3192.01-MHz 686-class CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf29  Stepping = 9
>  
> Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MC
>A,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
> Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs
> real memory  = 1073168384 (1023 MB)
> avail memory = 1035091968 (987 MB)
> Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
> npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
> npx0: INT 16 interface
> acpi0: <DELL   8300   > on motherboard
> pcibios: BIOS version 2.10
> Using $PIR table, 8 entries at 0xc00feae0
> acpi0: power button is handled as a fixed feature programming model.
> Timecounter "ACPI-fast"  frequency 3579545 Hz
> acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0
> acpi_cpu0: <CPU> port 0x530-0x537 on acpi0
> acpi_cpu1: <CPU> port 0x530-0x537 on acpi0
> acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
> pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
> pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
> agp0: <Intel Generic host to PCI bridge> mem 0xe8000000-0xefffffff at
> device 0.0 on pci0 pcib1: <PCIBIOS PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
> pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
> pci1: <display, VGA> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
> uhci0: <Intel 82801EB (ICH5) USB controller USB-A> port 0xff80-0xff9f irq
> 11 at device 29.0 on pci0 usb0: <Intel 82801EB (ICH5) USB controller USB-A>
> on uhci0
> usb0: USB revision 1.0
> uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
> uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
> uhci1: <Intel 82801EB (ICH5) USB controller USB-B> port 0xff60-0xff7f irq
> 10 at device 29.1 on pci0 usb1: <Intel 82801EB (ICH5) USB controller USB-B>
> on uhci1
> usb1: USB revision 1.0
> uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
> uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
> uhci2: <Intel 82801EB (ICH5) USB controller USB-C> port 0xff40-0xff5f irq 9
> at device 29.2 on pci0 usb2: <Intel 82801EB (ICH5) USB controller USB-C> on
> uhci2
> usb2: USB revision 1.0
> uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
> uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
> uhci3: <Intel 82801EB (ICH5) USB controller USB-D> port 0xff20-0xff3f irq
> 11 at device 29.3 on pci0 usb3: <Intel 82801EB (ICH5) USB controller USB-D>
> on uhci3
> usb3: USB revision 1.0
> uhub3: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
> uhub3: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
> pci0: <serial bus, USB> at device 29.7 (no driver attached)
> pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0
> pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2
> fxp0: <Intel 82801BA (D865) Pro/100 VE Ethernet> port 0xdf40-0xdf7f mem
> 0xfcfff000-0xfcffffff irq 10 at device 8.0 on pci2 fxp0: Ethernet address
> 00:07:e9:5f:67:fd
> miibus0: <MII bus> on fxp0
> inphy0: <i82562ET 10/100 media interface> on miibus0
> inphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0
> isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
> atapci0: <Intel ICH5 UDMA100 controller> port
> 0xffa0-0xffaf,0x374-0x377,0x170-0x177,0x3f4-0x3f7,0x1f0-0x1f7 mem
> 0xfebffc00-0xfebfffff irq 9 at device 31.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on
> atapci0
> ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
> atapci1: <Intel ICH5 SATA150 controller> port
> 0xfea0-0xfeaf,0xfe30-0xfe33,0xfe20-0xfe27,0xfe10-0xfe13,0xfe00-0xfe07 irq 9
> at device 31.2 on pci0 ata2: at 0xfe00 on atapci1
> ata3: at 0xfe20 on atapci1
> pci0: <serial bus, SMBus> at device 31.3 (no driver attached)
> pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 31.5 (no driver attached)
> fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone)> port
> 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes
> threshold
> fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
> atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0
> atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
> kbd0 at atkbd0
> psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
> psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3
> sio0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on acpi0
> sio0: type 16550A
> ppc0 port 0x778-0x77f,0x378-0x37f irq 7 on acpi0
> ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
> ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold
> ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0
> plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
> lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
> lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
> ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
> orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem 0xd1000-0xd3fff,0xc0000-0xcf7ff on isa0
> pmtimer0 on isa0
> sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
> sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
> sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
> sio1: port may not be enabled
> vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
> RTC BIOS diagnostic error 18<memory_size,fixed_disk>
> Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
> ad4: 238418MB <WDC WD2500JD-75FYB0> [484406/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA100
> acd0: CDROM <Lite-On LTN486S 48x Max> at ata1-master PIO4
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad4s3a
>
>
> <=== END OF dmesg output
>
> Thanks,
> Amit
>
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