fingers stated: : Hi all : : Ok, I've unfortunately got an onboard sound card of sorts. According to : the bios, it's a "legacy SoundBlaster". Now I've tried reading varios : doc's, but most of them are outdated. : : /usr/src/sys/i386/isa/sound/sound.doc talks about: : : Instructions on using audio on a FreeBSD 2.1 (or 2.0-current) system. : : I've tried many variatios of my kernel config, some trying pcm and snd, : some trying sb0 and even the following which I found in the mailing list : archives: : : <from very old mail> : controller pnp0 : controller snd0 : device sb0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 vector sbintr : device sbxvi0 at isa? drq 5 : device sbmidi0 at isa? port 0x330 : device opl0 at isa? port 0x388 : </from very old mail> : : but no matter what I get errors with a make, or something similar. If : anyone's using a GA-6VX7-4X Gigabyte motherboard. If anyone can point me : to some recent documentation that would still be relevant, or has some : suggestions, please let me know. Rob- You don't mention what version of FreeBSD you are using .. 4.0, 4.1? Do you know if it is PCI or ISA .. what chipset is this using? If it is ISA... options PNPBIOS device pcm and then "cd /dev; sh MAKEDEV snd0" if it is pci and supported, the options PNPBIOS is probably not needed (but is useful for a lot of other things). So, I went to www.giga-byte.com and found the GA-6VX7-4X uses the Apollo Pro 133A. This probably means that it is a VIA soundcard built-in to the motherboard. Support for this card was recently added to -current (not sure if Cameron has MFC'd it .. you most likely can). Here is how: grab the latest copies of: via82c686.c and via82c686.h from http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/sound/pci/ and then add dev/sound/pci/via82c686.c optional pcm pci to /sys/conf/files just above dev/sound/pcm/ac97.c optional pcm Hope this helps. S PS. The original was written for 4.x and is located at http://www.inode.org/sw/auvia/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Sean O'Connell Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences Phone: (919) 684-5419 Duke University Fax: (919) 684-8594 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
