sound card not recognized by freebsd 8.2 but mentioned in PC-BSD 8.2

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

did you really get no other answer?

On Friday 15 April 2011 22:11:05 Zhang Weiwu, Beijing wrote:
> Hello. I intend to use FreeBSD instead of PC-BSD. The sound card doesn't 
> work on FreeBSD 8.2. I tried to follow the manual and loaded all sound 
> card drivers
> 
> # kldload snd_driver

this will never work.

You must load the driver for your sound card. Something like

kldload  snd_hda

You must replace snd_hda by the name of the driver for your card.

Erich
> 
> But no driver works:
> 
> # cat /dev/sndstat
> FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2009061500/i386)
> Installed devices:
> 
> There is nothing after "installed devices". And there is nothing about 
> sound card mentioned in dmesg.
> 
> I had the impression non of the drivers recognizes the card, which is:
> 
> none1 at pci0:0:4:0: class=0x040100 card=0x103b13bd chip=0x545510b9 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
> vendor = 'Acer Labs Incorporated (ALi/ULi)'
> device = 'AC'97 Audio Controller (M1563M Southbridge)'
> class = multimedia
> subclass = audio
> 
> 
> Search for the chip ID as keyword on google reveals in PC-BSD this 
> keyword is mentioned in their driver database 
> "/PCBSD/soundDetect/soundcards.xml"
> 
> source: http://trac.pcbsd.org/changeset/3018/pcbsd
> 
> Somehow this hints PC-BSD recognizes and can configure this sound card.
> 
> My question is, if PC-BSD could play using this sound card, a FreeBSD 
> method must not be too far away, right? Can I configure FreeBSD somehow 
> to let a driver recognize and make use of this sound card?
> 
> P. S. If it doesn't work, I guess I'll fall back to Windows instead of 
> PC-BSD because I intend to use this machine for playing around and 
> testing GNUStep including its multimedia. The computer has a hard-wired 
> 8GB storage which is OK for the purpose, but not enough for PC-BSD.
> 
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