CMI8788 audio card/chip support

[Jamie Paul Griffin]

[ Polytropon wrote on Mon 27.Aug'12 at  4:10:57 +0200 ]

> On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 02:01:34 +0000, James Powell wrote:
> > 
> > Are any plans being made to start support for these audio cards?
> > Currently I'm using one in a system I would like to use with
> > FreeBSD but it has no support through the kernel and driver
> > support from OSSv4 lands me with a system that either freezes
> > or won't boot properly.
> 
> Interesting. I've been using a CMI-based sound card with
> FreeBSD 4, 5 and 7 already. See "man snd_cmi":
> 
> HARDWARE
>      The snd_cmi driver supports the following sound cards:
> 
>      ·   CMedia CMI8338A
>      ·   CMedia CMI8338B
>      ·   CMedia CMI8738
>      ·   CMedia CMI8738B
> 
> It lists older CMI8788 as supported devices. Doesn't it
> provide sufficient compatibility?

Have you tried loading the generic driver to see if your audio card is picked up:

	# kldload snd_driver

then try 

	# cat /dev/sndstat

which will show more info about it? That's what's recommended in the handbook.
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