On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 05:00:38PM +0530, Manish Jain wrote: > > > Hello All, > > 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 : > > 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 ?
hw.snd.default_unit=1 in /etc/sysctl.conf ? > > 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 ? Have you tried sysutils/apcupsd. It's designed to work with APC upses. Fairly easy to install & configure. > > 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 > > > Happy New Year and Thanks for any help > Manish Jain Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"