Sound card - Revision history

Sidetone: /* FreeBSD 7+ Sound */

2021-02-07T05:37:29Z

FreeBSD 7+ Sound

Sidetone: rearranged order of headers

2021-02-07T05:28:03Z

rearranged order of headers

Sidetone: /* FreeBSD 7+ Sound */

2015-08-07T22:30:21Z

FreeBSD 7+ Sound

Sidetone: /* Compiling the Sound Card into Kernel */

2015-08-07T22:28:46Z

Compiling the Sound Card into Kernel

Sidetone: /* Compiling the Sound Card into Kernel */

2015-08-07T22:27:51Z

Compiling the Sound Card into Kernel

Sidetone at 22:26, 7 August 2015

2015-08-07T22:26:52Z

Sidetone: /* FreeBSD 7+ Sound */ Compiling into kernel

2015-08-07T22:22:41Z

FreeBSD 7+ Sound: Compiling into kernel

Jcp at 09:51, 6 September 2008

2008-09-06T09:51:51Z

Map7: Remove crap

2007-04-30T23:51:40Z

Remove crap

Map7 at 02:22, 31 October 2006

2006-10-31T02:22:18Z

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     snd_ich_load="YES"
 ====Compiling the Sound Card into Kernel====
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   % make installkernel KERNCONF=CUSTOM
-That's it for the sound driver configuration on a 7.x system.
+That's it for the sound driver configuration.
 === FreeBSD5.4 and above Sound ===

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 == Loading the Kernel Driver Module ==
-=== FreeBSD 4+ Sound ===
+=== FreeBSD 7+ Sound ===
-For this you need to use [[kldload]] to load your sound driver. If you don't know which sound card you have -- and therefore don't know which driver to use -- you can load the generic [[snd_driver]] module (in 5.x systems -- in 4.x you need to load the [[snd]] module), which works for most cards, like so:
+At this point in FreeBSD's development, it's even a little simpler to determine which snd_ module to load in some cases.
-    samizdata# kldload snd_driver
+    > kldload snd_driver
-If that works, you'll probably want it to load automatically at boot time.  To do so, you'll want to append a line about snd_driver to your loader.conf:
+In this case it's really obvious from the "kld snd_ich" that the module for this card is snd_ich.  Sometimes it won't be so obvious, but the name shown for the card should also be a big hint.  So I add to my /boot/loader.conf:
- samizdata# echo snd_driver_load="YES" >> /boot/loader.conf
+   snd_ich_load="YES"
-And presto, when booting, your system will always try to load snd_driver.
+====Compiling the Sound Card into Kernel====
-If you don't know your sound card type the following:
+Then rebuild the kernel:
-  # man sound
+  % cd /usr/src/
-Now look at the SEE ALSO section and start loading each of these until your sound works.
+  % make buildkernel KERNCONF=CUSTOM
+ % make installkernel KERNCONF=CUSTOM
-For instance for an ASUS A8V board it's a running a VIA sound card so I would run:
- # kldload snd_via8233
-−
-If this works I put this line into my /boot/loader.conf
-  snd_via8233_load="YES"
-−
-That way it's loaded at boot time without having to recompile the kernel.
 === FreeBSD5.4 and above Sound ===
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 Of course remember to replace snd_ich_load with whatever your individual device is.
-=== FreeBSD 7+ Sound ===
+=== FreeBSD 4+ Sound ===
-At this point in FreeBSD's development, it's even a little simpler to determine which snd_ module to load in some cases.
+For this you need to use [[kldload]] to load your sound driver. If you don't know which sound card you have -- and therefore don't know which driver to use -- you can load the generic [[snd_driver]] module (in 5.x systems -- in 4.x you need to load the [[snd]] module), which works for most cards, like so:
-    > kldload snd_driver
+    samizdata# kldload snd_driver
-   > cat /dev/sndstat
-   FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2007061600/i386)
-   Installed devices:
-   pcm0: <Intel ICH6 (82801FB)> at io 0x90040800, 0x90040400 irq 22 bufsz 16384 kld snd_ich [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/1r:1v channels duplex default)
-In this case it's really obvious from the "kld snd_ich" that the module for this card is snd_ich.  Sometimes it won't be so obvious, but the name shown for the card should also be a big hint.  So I add to my /boot/loader.conf:
+If that works, you'll probably want it to load automatically at boot time.  To do so, you'll want to append a line about snd_driver to your loader.conf:
-   snd_ich_load="YES"
+ samizdata# echo snd_driver_load="YES" >> /boot/loader.conf
-====Compiling the Sound Card into Kernel====
+And presto, when booting, your system will always try to load snd_driver.
-Instead of loading the sound card into ''loader.conf'', it can be compiled into the kernel. To do this, using the sound card identified in the above example, check that the following lines are in the kernel configuration file ''/usr/src/sys/*/conf/CUSTOM'' :
- device     sound
- device     snd_ich
- # other unused "snd_" items can be commented out
-Then rebuild the kernel:
+If you don't know your sound card type the following:
-  % cd /usr/src/
+  # man sound
- % make buildkernel KERNCONF=CUSTOM
+Now look at the SEE ALSO section and start loading each of these until your sound works.
- % make installkernel KERNCONF=CUSTOM
-That's it for the sound driver configuration on a 7.x system.
+For instance for an ASUS A8V board it's a running a VIA sound card so I would run:
 == External Links ==

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 ====Compiling the Sound Card into Kernel====
-Instead of loading the sound card into ''loader.conf'', it can be compiled into the kernel. To do this, using the sound card in the above example, check that the following lines are in the kernel configuration file ''/usr/src/sys/*/conf/CUSTOM'':
+Instead of loading the sound card into ''loader.conf'', it can be compiled into the kernel. To do this, using the sound card identified in the above example, check that the following lines are in the kernel configuration file ''/usr/src/sys/*/conf/CUSTOM'' :
   device     sound
   device     snd_ich

@@ Line 70: / Line 70: @@
 ====Compiling the Sound Card into Kernel====
-Instead of loading the sound card into ''loader.conf'', it can be compiled into the kernel. To compile the sound card into the kernel using the sound card in the above example, check that the following lines are in the configuration file ''/usr/src/sys/*/conf/CUSTOM'':
+Instead of loading the sound card into ''loader.conf'', it can be compiled into the kernel. To do this, using the sound card in the above example, check that the following lines are in the kernel configuration file ''/usr/src/sys/*/conf/CUSTOM'':
   device     sound
   device     snd_ich

@@ Line 70: / Line 70: @@
 ====Compiling the Sound Card into Kernel====
-Instead of loading the sound card into ''loader.conf'', it can be loaded into the kernel. To compile the sound card into the kernel using the sound card in the above example, check that the following lines are in the configuration file ''/usr/src/sys/*/conf/CUSTOM'':
+Instead of loading the sound card into ''loader.conf'', it can be compiled into the kernel. To compile the sound card into the kernel using the sound card in the above example, check that the following lines are in the configuration file ''/usr/src/sys/*/conf/CUSTOM'':
   device     sound
   device     snd_ich

← Older revision		Revision as of 22:22, 7 August 2015
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	snd_ich_load="YES"		snd_ich_load="YES"
		+
		+	===Compiling Sound Card into Kernel===
		+	To compile the sound card into the kernel using the sound card in the above example, check that the following lines are in the configuration file ''/usr/src/sys/*/conf/CUSTOM'':
		+	device sound
		+	device snd_ich
		+	# other unused "snd_" items can be commented out
		+
		+	Then rebuild the kernel:
		+	% cd /usr/src/
		+	% make buildkernel KERNCONF=CUSTOM
		+	% make installkernel KERNCONF=CUSTOM

	That's it for the sound driver configuration on a 7.x system.		That's it for the sound driver configuration on a 7.x system.

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-In order to get sound out of your FreeBSD box, you'll need to either load your sound driver module or compile sound support in your kernel -- it's not installed by default. For this you need to use [[kldload]] to load your sound driver. If you don't know which sound card you have -- and therefore don't know which driver to use -- you can load the generic [[snd_driver]] module (in 5.x systems -- in 4.x you need to load the [[snd]] module), which works for most cards, like so:
+== Sound Card ==
- samizdata# kldload snd_driver
 If that works, you'll probably want it to load automatically at boot time.  To do so, you'll want to append a line about snd_driver to your loader.conf:
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-== FreeBSD5.4 and above Sound ==
+==== FreeBSD5.4 and above Sound ====
 Since 27/07/04 the sound system has changed a lot and now to install sound under FreeBSD you have to do the following:
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 Of course remember to replace snd_ich_load with whatever your individual device is.
-== External Links ==
+==== FreeBSD 7+ Sound ====
 [http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html FreeBSD Handbook]
 [[Category:FreeBSD for Workstations]]

← Older revision		Revision as of 02:22, 31 October 2006
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	And presto, when booting, your system will always try to load snd_driver.		And presto, when booting, your system will always try to load snd_driver.
		+
		+	If you don't know your sound card type the following:
		+	# man sound
		+	Now look at the SEE ALSO section and start loading each of these until your sound works.
		+
		+	For instance for an ASUS A8V board it's a running a VIA sound card so I would run:
		+	# kldload snd_via8233
		+
		+	If this works I put this line into my /boot/loader.conf
		+	snd_via8233_load="YES"
		+
		+	That way it's loaded at boot time without having to recompile the kernel.