Sound on Dell Dimension 8300 (FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE)

[Svein Halvor Halvorsen]

* Amit Kumar Saha [2005-03-30 11:30 -0600]
>  	I am trying to enable the builtin sound card present in Dell
>  Dimension 8300 but cant seem to get it done. As far as I remember, in
>  FreeBSD 5.3 it can be done simply by having the following two options in
>  the kernel config file:
>  
>  device sound
>  device snd_ich
>  
>  However, FreeBSD 5.1 does not recognize any of these even (Even man sound
>  or man snd_ich does not work even though it should work on any FreeBSD 5.*
>  So I guess I have to give some hardware hints in order to


You need the old-style (aka 4.x style) "device pcm" in versions prior to 
5.3-REL (maybe 5.2.1). However, you should REALLY consider upgrading to 
either 5.3-REL or 5.4-PRE as ALOT of stuff has been done since 5.1-REL



Svein Halvor