intel i810 sound card & motorola sm56 int. modem config

[Prashanth Chandra]

Hi,

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 09:59:55 +0530, Gnanaskandan Rajagopalan
<gnanaskandan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> i am new to freebsd and i installed freebsd4.10 on my system with
> great difficulty. it wudnt display GUI properly. i had to do xconfig a
> lot of times but still it failed. Frustrated, i switched off the comp
> and when i switched it back on, it was working. KDE is running by
> default. i installed most of the packages during the install.
> 1. Is there any list like windows add/remove programs list where i can
> see what programs i have installed? How do i change the default GUI or
> such applications? Guess that shouldn't be difficult and if i look
> around properly, i should find it.

Try: 

    $ man pkg_info

For changing window manager refer to Handbook:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html

> 2. How do i configure the sound card? i have intel 810 chipset. and
> AC97 on-board audio controller.

     # cd /boot/kernel
     # kldload sound.ko
     # kldload snd_ich.ko

See man pages of kldload and kldstat.

Also, add the following line to /boot/loader.conf:

        snd_ich_load="YES"

to load the sound modules by default at boot time (no need to do
kldload explicitly).

> 3. I have an internal modem which didn't get installed. And i cant
> kppp dialer because of that. It is a winmodem. The model is sm56 by
> motorola. I had lots of probs installing this modem in RedHat9 long
> back.

No idea about this.

- Prashanth