FreeBSD 6.0 and Sony Ericsson GC83

[Jeff Cross]

Ariff Abdullah wrote:

>On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 15:13:04 -0600
>Jeff Cross <jeff.cross at averageadmins.com> wrote:
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>>Thanks for chiming in on this one, Ariff.  I really appreciate your 
>>help.  I have attached my pciconf output.
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>I hope you know how to recompile your kernel.
>
>Get the relevant patch. Mind that you're using 6.0-RELEASE, not
>6.0-STABLE. http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/ . Have your kernel
>sources extracted. Patch it. Now, replace your
>/usr/src/sys/dev/sound/pci/ich.c with
>http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/test/ich.c .
>
>You don't have to recompile everything. A simple cd
>/usr/src/sys/modules/sound/ ; make clean cleandir ; make ; make
>install should suffice. Either reboot, or manually kldunload / kldload
>your sound modules.
>
>Hope that helps.
>
>--
>Ariff Abdullah
>FreeBSD
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>
First I will start with: I now have sound working on my laptop within 
FreeBSD thanks to Ariff Abdullah's assistance.

Since I am no FreeBSD guru, I didn't know how to "patch" my kernel 
sources. I did have them extracted so I backed up all of my sound 
related kernel objects and the original ich.c file, downloaded and 
copied the one in the above post to the /usr/src/sys/dev/sound/pci/ 
directory, and ran the commands you, Ariff, provided and restarted...  
It worked like a champ!!!

So, now my question is this: Since you recommended I patch my kernel to 
STABLE, is it necessary now since I have audio working? I have been 
using freebsd-update to get the latest security patches and such.  I 
would like to know how to track the stable branch but I think I'll have 
to post to the freebsd-stable list for that.  I know how off-topic posts 
are frowned upon on other lists and I am sure the FreeBSD community is 
no different.

Thanks again, Ariff, for your assistance!  I truly appreciate it!

Jeff Cross