On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 05:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm running 5.3-Release amd64 on an Asus AV8 motherboard which includes > Realtek ALC850 audio chipset. I'm unable to get the system to recognize > the chipset. From the archives/man pages/manual I've :
This is the AC97 chipset, the thing that you load the driver for is different.
> # kldload snd_driver
> kldload: can't load snd_driver: No such file or directory
Try kldload snd_ich, failing that email the output of pciconf -lv
Although snd_driver should work.. What does dmesg say after you've tried to
load it?
> The last one resulted in /dev/sndstat showing up, but the contents show
> no devices :
>
> # cat /dev/sndstat
> FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
> Installed devices:
>
> However I don't see any snd_* modules in /boot/kernel/*ko
Hmm, well that IS odd :)
[inchoate 10:30] ~ >ll /boot/kernel/snd*.ko | wc -l
25
Have you rebuilt your kernel? It may be that it failed part way through so you
didn't get the sound driver modules built or installed.
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