[wplug-bsd] Sound Card

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Tue Nov 18 10:47:47 EST 2003


Robert Coutch wrote:
> Thanks dude !!!

Glad I could help.

> A visit to the link you gave put me on the path to enlightenment.

I still contend that the FreeBSD documentation is the best available anywhere.

> I modified /boot/loader.conf for the following:
> 
> snd_sbc_load="YES"
> snd_pcm_load="YES"
> 
> 
> Strangely, the sb16 module was not used - hmmmmm ?!??!?
> 
> I needed to specify the non-plug-and-pray parameters and found
> the /boot/device.hints file and added the following:
> 
> 
> hint.sbc.0.at="isa"
> hint.sbc.0.port="0x220"
> hint.sbc.0.irq="5"
> hint.sbc.0.drq="1"
> hint.sbc.0.flags="0x15"
> 
> I rebooted (just to be sure it was going to work from a cold start)
> and the devfs did the rest.
> 
> /dev/dsp appeared and KDE3 now has sound.
> 
> 
> Thanks for pointing out the online documentation,
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> On Saturday 15 November 2003 06:02 pm, Bill Moran wrote:
> 
>>Robert Coutch wrote:
>>
>>>Howdy,
>>>
>>>I have FreeBSD 5.1 running in a virtual machine for reasons too lengthy
>>>to mention here.
>>>
>>>I want to add Sound Blaster 16 support without recompiling the kernel.
>>>
>>>All the documentation I've seen shows how to recompile for the support
>>>and only mention that kernel modules can be loaded.
>>>
>>>Can someone point me in the right direction or tell me what I need to do
>>>to get the (emulated) SB16 working?
>>
>>Did you see this:
>>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html
>>
>>According to /boot/defaults/loader.conf, you should be able to add:
>>snd_sb16_load="YES"
>>to /boot/loader.conf to get the KLD for sound loaded for your setup.
>>
>>Let me know if it works.
> 
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