Vincent Stemen wrote: > ... > > I had to directly load the snd_via8233.ko module. It turns out that > snd.ko was apparently loading all the sound modules except for two. > snd_via8233.ko and snd_uaudio.ko....
> So the question is, why did snd.ko not load two of the modules? It is > just my luck that it happens to be the one for our sound device. Is > that a bug or a feature?... Very interesting. You just solved a puzzle for me. I tried compiling the 'pcm' device into my custom kernel -- which never worked! I always had to load the via8233 module manually at boot, and now I know why. (My SWAG would be that this is more buggish than featurish.) Just as a minor aside, loading the via module will automatically pull in the snd_pcm module, so you needn't load it explicitly. As a more major aside, I do not load the snd module at all, and yet my sound works fine. Can you try loading only the snd_via8233.ko from loader.conf and see if you get satisfactory sound? What other modules get loaded when you try this? Thanks.
