I have a dual-boot FreeBSD/Linux machine. I've had lots of trouble
getting sound to work under FreeBSD: sometimes it would, and sometimes
it wouldn't, and I could never figure out why. But today I noticed a
pattern, and with it, a way to always get sound functioning under
FreeBSD. It just
Damon Butler wrote:
Sound functions under FreeBSD only if I boot into Linux first and then
reboot the machine into FreeBSD. This sounds rather incredible (to me
at least) but here's what I've done to confirm this.
Initialisation :)
Your soundcard needs initialising before it'll function in some
Mike Woods wrote:
Damon Butler wrote:
Sound functions under FreeBSD only if I boot into Linux first and then
reboot the machine into FreeBSD. This sounds rather incredible (to me
at least) but here's what I've done to confirm this.
Initialisation :)
Your soundcard needs initialising before it'll
Damon Butler wrote:
Hurm. That's all well and good, I guess, but *why* is Linux
initializing the on-board sound while FreeBSD is/can not? I admit my
understanding of PC hardware to be limited, but I had thought that the
purpose of the BIOS was to initialize the hardware for the OS to
Is my problem indicative of a general driver deficiency in FreeBSD?
Is there some module I'm not aware of that, were I to load it, take
care of this mysterious initialization ?
No, this looks like a device specific quirk, like how the 3com 905c will
always try and share irq's with my soundcard
