What sound drive should I use?

[Kevin Kinsey]

Oleksandr Semenko wrote:

>I have problems with sound on FreeBSD 5.3 on KDE 3.3.0. 
> 
>My ASUS P4P800SE motherboard has "ADI AD (Analog Device) 1985 Sound MAX 6-channel CODEC" sound 
>card. I don't know if it is supported. In the list of supported sound drivers I found 
>snd_ad_1816 driver, but it doesn't work with my card. 
> 
>System detects my sound card correctly when I use the "kldload snd_drivers" command: 
>"Analog Device AD1985 Ac 97 Codec". 
>But there is no such driver like snd_ad1985, only snd_ad1816!!! 
> 
> 
>1. Every time when I use only this "snd_ad1816" driver by typing "kldload snd_ad1816" or 
>adding "snd_ad1816_load="YES"" in /boot/loader.conf file, I have the following message: 
> 
>"Sound server informational message: 
>Error while initializing the sound driver: 
>device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory) 
>The sound server will continue, using the null output device." 
> 
>At the same time there is no record in /dev/sndstat file and no /dev/dsp file. 
> 
>2. There is no such bad message when I load all!!! drivers: "kldload snd_drivers" or add 
>"snd_driver_load="YES"" in /boot/loader.conf file. But still no sound! 
>On the other hand several empty /dev/dsp files appears: dsp0.0;dsp0.1;dspr0.1;dspW0.0;dspW0.1. 
> 
>And the following record appears in /dev/sndstat: 
>"FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) 
>Installed devices: 
>pcm0: <Intel ICH5 (82801EB)> at io 0xfebff800, 0xfebff400 irq 17 bufsz 16384 kld snd_ich 
>(1p/1r/0v channels duplex default)" 
> 
>I will be appreciate if someone can help me. 
> 
>Regards, Sasha 
>  
>

Try this as root: `kldload snd_ich.ko`;

I'm guessing that the "snd_ich" driver would be what you
need, as FBSD seem to think that's what it is.

The relevant line in /boot/loader.conf would be, then:

   snd_ich_load="YES"

HTH,

Kevin Kinsey