Loading sound drivers

[Ricardo Jesus]

kyanh wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:47:15 +0000
> af300wsm at gmail.com wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> My motherboard, an ASUS K8V-X, has a generic type sound chip on
>> board, according to ASUS' specifications, it is an AD1980 chipset.
>> The hardware notes, linked from the handbook, does not list this
>> chipset but does list several Intel type HDA chipsets including one
>> AD1981 chipset. Never the less, using the handbook instructions I
>> loaded the meta sound driver and my chipset was identified as a
>> via8233 chipset. The meta driver loaded many drivers into the
>> kernel, but through trial and error I've discovered that only
>> sound.ko and snd_via8233.ko need to be loaded. So, I put these two
>> lines into /boot/loader.conf:
>>
>> sound="YES"
>> snd_via8233="YES"
> 
> The correct lines are
> 
> sound_load="YES"
> snd_via8233_load="YES"
> 
> Regards,
> 
You even need sound_load="YES" in the loader.conf. snd_via8234 pulls it 
upon loading.