Sound Card - NOT

[Andy K]

Hi Everyone 

Seems that quite a few people are having sound probs ! 

I am about to join in here - I also cannot get my sound card to
operate.I have a P2 with a 20 gig Hdd and 128Mb RAM - the machine has
onboard sound so I tried all the options - PNP BIOS, pcm, anything
generic, and the sound pro config (as thats what the bios indicated it
was) from the handbook, no good,(I did reconfig the kernel each time as
well) so I disabled the onboard sound and installed a sound card - no
idea of brand, it came from a dead computer but I knew it was working be
fore the motherboard fell over. Main problem is my system recognises 2
video cards (as it did before I disabled the onboard sound) and the new
sound card is not recognised (as far  as I can see)

Output of cat /dev/sndstat 

FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) 
Installed Devices 
pcm0: <Ess 1868 DSP> at io 0x220 irq 5 drq 1:0 bufsz 4096 (1p/1r/0v
channels duplex) 

(isn't this saying that it is working ?)

Output of uname -a 

FreeBSD Rockstar.richardflanagan.com.au 4.8 STABLE #1 Tue Aug 26
10:10:39 EST 2003
andy at rockstar.richardflanagan.com.au:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DRAGON i386 

Output of grep pcm /var/run/demsg.boot 

pcm0: <ESS 18xx DSP> on sbc0 

(doesn't this also indicate sound is happening ?)


I get no errors when I try to play an MP3 through xmms, problem is I get
no sound either. The error message saying my sound card isn't configured
when I start kde has gone away as well

Output of pciconf -lv 


vendor   = 'Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS)' 
    device   = 'SiS5597 Host to PCI bridge' 
    class    = bridge 
    subclass = HOST-PCI 
isab0 at pci0:1:0: class=0x060100 card=0x00000000 chip=0x00081039 rev=0x01
hdr=0x00 
    vendor   = 'Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS)' 
    device   = 'SiS85C503/5513 PCI to ISA Bridge (LPC Bridge)' 
    class    = bridge 
    subclass = PCI-ISA 
atapci0 at pci0:1:1:       class=0x01018a card=0x500d8a02 chip=0x55131039
rev=0xd0 hdr=0x00 
    vendor   = 'Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS)' 
    device   = 'SiS5513 EIDE Controller (A,B step)' 
    class    = mass storage 
    subclass = ATA 
none0 at pci0:11:0:        class=0x030000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x88115333
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 
    vendor   = 'S3 Incorporated' 
    device   = '86C732 Trio32, 86C764 Trio64, 86C765 Trio64V+ Rev 01' 
    class    = display 
    subclass = VGA 
ed0 at pci0:13:0:  class=0x020000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x802910ec rev=0x00
hdr=0x00 
    vendor   = 'Realtek Semiconductor' 
    device   = 'RTL8029 NE2000 compatible Ethernet' 
    class    = network 
    subclass = ethernet 
none1 at pci0:20:0:        class=0x030000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x02001039
rev=0x65 hdr=0x00 
    vendor   = 'Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS)' 
    device   = 'SiS5597/98 Onboard Graphics Controller' 
    class    = display 
    subclass = VGA 


Which as you can see shows two video cards and no sound card. Heck, I
dunno, I'm willing to try anything now. All help, helpful or not will be
appreciated. 

Regards to all 
Andrew Kozak