Loading sound drivers

Ricardo Jesus ricardo.meb.jesus at gmail.com
Thu Apr 9 15:36:54 UTC 2009


Ricardo Jesus wrote:
> 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.
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It should read *you don't even..*

Oops ;)


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