[SOLVED] sound card not recognized by freebsd 8.2 but mentioned in PC-BSD 8.2

I am actually amazed nobody nor the handbook mentioned OSS to me, because after learned this, it suddenly become obvious this option should be tried right after failure of snd_driver. In fact, the sound card in-topic is Ali M5455, the first on the list of sound card supported by OSS.

Re: sound card not recognized by freebsd 8.2 but mentioned in PC-BSD 8.2

On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 09:42:38 +0700 Erich Dollansky wrote: On Friday 15 April 2011 22:11:05 Zhang Weiwu, Beijing wrote: Hello. I intend to use FreeBSD instead of PC-BSD. The sound card doesn't work on FreeBSD 8.2. I tried to follow the manual and loaded all sound card drivers #

Re: sound card not recognized by freebsd 8.2 but mentioned in PC-BSD 8.2

On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 09:42:38AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, did you really get no other answer? On Friday 15 April 2011 22:11:05 Zhang Weiwu, Beijing wrote: Hello. I intend to use FreeBSD instead of PC-BSD. The sound card doesn't work on FreeBSD 8.2. I tried to follow the

Re: sound card not recognized by freebsd 8.2 but mentioned in PC-BSD 8.2

Hi, On Saturday 16 April 2011 14:42:43 Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 09:42:38AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: # kldload snd_driver this will never work. Yes, it will. 'snd_driver' is a meta-module which depends on, and therefore will pull in, all the available

sound card not recognized by freebsd 8.2 but mentioned in PC-BSD 8.2

Hello. I intend to use FreeBSD instead of PC-BSD. The sound card doesn't work on FreeBSD 8.2. I tried to follow the manual and loaded all sound card drivers # kldload snd_driver But no driver works: # cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2009061500/i386) Installed devices:

Re: sound card not recognized by freebsd 8.2 but mentioned in PC-BSD 8.2

Hi, did you really get no other answer? On Friday 15 April 2011 22:11:05 Zhang Weiwu, Beijing wrote: Hello. I intend to use FreeBSD instead of PC-BSD. The sound card doesn't work on FreeBSD 8.2. I tried to follow the manual and loaded all sound card drivers # kldload snd_driver this

Re: sound card not recognized by freebsd 8.2 but mentioned in PC-BSD 8.2

On 04/16/2011 10:42 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote: On Friday 15 April 2011 22:11:05 Zhang Weiwu, Beijing wrote: # kldload snd_driver this will never work. You must load the driver for your sound card. Something like kldload snd_hda I am confused, because the handbook says the opposite:

Re: sound card not recognized by freebsd 8.2 but mentioned in PC-BSD 8.2

Hi, On Saturday 16 April 2011 11:16:39 Zhang Weiwu, Beijing wrote: On 04/16/2011 10:42 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote: On Friday 15 April 2011 22:11:05 Zhang Weiwu, Beijing wrote: # kldload snd_driver this will never work. You must load the driver for your sound card. Something like