sound support

[Glen Barber]

On 9/2/11 10:45 PM, Sameer R. Manek wrote:
> Hello Documentation team.
> 
>  

Hi Sameer,

> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/sound-setup.html 
> 
> seems to be a little out of date, since it's focused on the expectation that
> a creative labs card has been installed, which doesn't reflect the reality
> that a majority of motherboards come with a building audio chipset.
> 
> Perhaps a mention of device snd_hda might be worthy of inclusion? Based on:
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2006-September/004720.
> html
> 
>  
> Here's my suggested inclusion
> 
> High Definition Audio for Intel HDA and compatible audio chipsets
> 
> Many current systems can use a driver based on the works of Ariff Abdullah &
> Stephane E. Potvin's HDA driver.
> 
> To use the driver as a kernel module 
> 
> # kldload snd_hda 
> 

As I understand it right now, snd_hda is part of the GENERIC kernel for
the upcoming 9.0-RELEASE.  As such, I don't think we'll even need to
include any additional information to enable the sound drivers unless
they've been explicitly excluded from the kernel.

This seems like another section of the Handbook that may need some heavy
lifting to get it current with the latest upcoming release.

Thanks for the report!

-- 
Glen Barber | gjb at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Documentation Project