On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 05:00:38PM +0530, Manish Jain wrote: > > I recently installed FreeBSD 8.0 on my amd64 system attached to an APC > UPS via USB and a RealTek HDA onboard soundcard. I chose 'logo' as the > screensaver during installation, and put snd_hda_load="YES" in > /boot/loader.conf and upsd_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf. > > On booting, the sound driver gets loaded successfully and the APC UPS is > also detected (although there is no mention of the UPS in the output of > dmesg). I have the following problems :
If there is nothing in dmesg, how do you know if it is detected? > 1) There is no sound. AFAIK, there is a sysctl parameter to be tuned for > setting the correct audio channel (in my case hdac1), but I have > forgotten the parameter name. Can someone please remind me ? I think 'hw.snd.default_unit' is the one you are looking for. The command 'cat /dev/sndstat' gives you an overview of which devices are available. Also have a look at the output of 'mixer'. Maybe some volume is just set to 0. :-) > 2) upsd complains of inappropriate ioctl no matter which USB device node > I set in /usr/local/etc/upsd.conf. How can I set the device name > correctly so that the OS can shut itself down properly on extended power > failure ? If the UPS daemon acts as a serial device, it binds to the ucom(4) driver. So you'd expect to see a /dev/cuaU? and /dev/ttyU? device. > 3) For my console saver ('logo'), I get the following error message at > boot-time : > > module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (logo_saver, 0xffffffff81044010, 0) error 19 Can't help you here. I never use it. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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