HI, I have FreeBSD 6.0 and an AC97 sound card but I can't hear anything. My /dev/sndstat is empty. I've seen on web pages we could create a new device by typing sh MAKEDEV pcm but MAKEDEV doesn't exist in my computer. Maybe It's a bad solution. Help!!!!

Go to www.alsa-project.org and follow the instructions for your sound card.

ok but I don't find the soundcard in the list

In Linux we'd do lspci, not sure of the command in *BSD, on my pc it shows up as an Intel card.

There are several ways to see if your soundcard is supported, but if you are sure that it is an AC97 compatible chip set the you can do the following.

1) Become root
2) cd to /boot
3) with your favorite editor add the following 2 lines to /boot/loader.conf (don't worry that loader.conf is empty!)

sound_load="YES" # Digital sound subsystem
snd_ich_load="YES" # Intel ICH

Reboot the system. See if that works. If it does not then examine the list of soundcards supported in /boot/defaults/loader.conf. You will find the list of sound cards near the end of the file. Add that line to /boot/loader.conf and change the "NO" to a "YES". Reboot and see if that doesn't help.

Cheers--
Charles

You can also kldload snd_ich if you want to save the rebooting for the windows crowd

I try to load all the modules but It did'nt work

What is the output of pciconf -lv | grep AC97 ?


What happens if you do kldload sound.ko as root? Do dmesg | grep pcm to see what happens.

What happens if you do this as root:

kldload snd_driver

I already tried it... didn't work


kldload sound.ko
kldload: can't load sound.ko: File exists (maybe because I recompiled the kernel with the line "device sound" ?)

dmesg | grep pcm
nothing


pciconf -lv | grep AC97
nothing

but pciconf -lv prints someting that may be interesting
none0@pci0:27:0: class=0x040300 card=0x11731043 chip=0x26688086 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = '82801FB/FR/FW/FRW Intel High DefiNition Audio Controller'
class = multimedia

Didn't work how? As in getting an error, or just no sound?

You also haven't told us the result of specifically loading kldload /boot/kernel/snd_ich.ko as root. This is the ko that should work.


Maybe recompile the kernel without the sound device, then try the above kldload.

I have the same problem with my Intel 82801 onboard high-definition audio controller. Word is, FreeBSD doesn't support it yet. Here's the thread I started earlier about it: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=368581. There's also a bit about it on my website: http://mysite.verizon.net/taylor_ven...xbsd/beta.html. And here's the FreeBSD problem report for the 82801 audio controller: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/84311.

Sorry, but it looks like we'll just have to wait a bit until support gets to us. I don't know if it works with Linux OSS or ALSA, but it's a pretty recent chipset, so I kinda doubt it.

Both don't work. I don't get sound.



Yeah I saw it but I was not hopeless... and I'm still not