On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 12:57:51AM +0100, Joachim Dagerot wrote: > > I have a dell latitude cp[somrthing] 550 or 500. (laptop) > > It has a sound device ofcourse, but I can't figure out how to find out which > module to load. Some OS has a probe function, but I can't find that in my 5.3 > install.
FreeBSD has all the same probing functions any modern PC has, but some old hardware can't be autoprobed, and other hardware may just not have a driver that knows about them. For example, my clie using usb is plug in play, but freebsd If it's a PCI card then pciconf -vl will be able to reveal it. If it's a little (lot?) older and is ISA, then it might support ISA plug and play. In linux I used isapnptools and it could autodetect some sound cards. I'm not sure what the freebsd equivalent is. For non-plug in play ISA cards, there is no could way to autoprobe their hardware, but guess and check sometimes works. I'd try sound blaster, snd_sbc, for old ISA computers. When guess and check, make sure your only loading isa-style drivers, there's no point if it's a pci driver. > > So I started trying out kldload from the first in the locate snd_ result. > > That wasn't too smart, I have rebooted a few times now. > > Is the a better way to do this? > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
