PowerMac G4, snd_ai2s and FreeBSD 8.x

[Justin Hibbits]

On Jan 22, 2011, at 1:59 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:

> When I installed FreeBSD[2] 8.1-beta1 on my PowerMac G4[1], I could
> load the snd_ai2s module with just
> snd_ai2s_load="YES"
> in /boot/loader.conf
>
> After upgrading to FreeBSD 8.2-prerelease (using csup / make
> buildworld), it complained during boot:
>
> KLD file snd_ai2s.ko is missing dependencies
>
> and when running 'kldstat' the snd_ai2s module wasn't
> loaded. If I did 'kldload snd_ai2s' from the command line it loaded  
> fine.
> Now I find that I need the following in /boot/loader.conf in order for
> the snd_ai2s module to load:
> sound_load="YES"
> snd_ai2s_load="YES"
>
> Is it supposed to work like that?
>
> References:
> 1) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/powermac_g4
> 2) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/powermac_g4_freebsd
>
> -- 
> Torfinn

I don't know if it's always worked that way, but I found I needed to  
do that as well when I built it as a module a few months ago on - 
CURRENT.  Instead, though, I decided to just build it into the kernel.

- Justin