Enabling sound?

[Derrick Ryalls]

On 7/21/06, Rich Demanowski <richd at richdphoto.com> wrote:
> I just dropped a SoundBlaster Live! card into my box, and have followed
> the directions in the handbook and the man pages.
>
> The following lines are in the compiled kernel:
>     device sound
>     device snd_emu10k1
>
> I don't get the pcm0 lines that section 7.2.2 in the manual talks
> about.  cat /dev/sndstat returns:
>     FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
>     Installed devices:
> and nothing else.
>
> kldload snd_emu10k1 yields no output whatsoever.  When followed by cat
> /dev/sndstat it produces the same outputs as above.
>
> kld_load snd_driver yields:
>     ppc0: parallel port not found.
>     sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0x20
>     sio1: port may not be enabled
>     ppc0: parallel port not found.
>     sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
>     sio1: port may not be enabled
>     ppc0: parallel port not found.
>     sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
>     sio1: port may not be enabled
>     ppc0: parallel port not found.
>     sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
>     sio1: port may not be enabled
>     ppc0: parallel port not found.
>     sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
>     sio1: port may not be enabled
>     ppc0: parallel port not found.
>     sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
>     sio1: port may not be enabled
>     ppc0: parallel port not found.
>     sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
>     sio1: port may not be enabled
>
> I recompiled with the sound and emu10k1 drivers commented out, and the
> kldload and cat /dev/sndstat commands still yield the same.
>
> I need to get sound enabled on this box, so I can do some online
> training provided through streaming video.  Please, please, please tell
> me I don't have to break down and install wankers on this thing ...
>

I would try this:

kldload snd_driver

then cat /dev/sndstat to see if perhaps a different driver is needed.
Also, you shouldn't need to recompile, just add the driver line to
/boot/loader.conf as described in the handbook.