Loading sound drivers

[Ricardo Jesus]

af300wsm at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My motherboard, an ASUS K8V-X, has a generic type sound chip on board, 
> according to ASUS' specifications, it is an AD1980 chipset. The hardware 
> notes, linked from the handbook, does not list this chipset but does 
> list several Intel type HDA chipsets including one AD1981 chipset. Never 
> the less, using the handbook instructions I loaded the meta sound driver 
> and my chipset was identified as a via8233 chipset. The meta driver 
> loaded many drivers into the kernel, but through trial and error I've 
> discovered that only sound.ko and snd_via8233.ko need to be loaded. So, 
> I put these two lines into /boot/loader.conf:
> 
> sound="YES"
> snd_via8233="YES"
> 
> However, these two modules do not load on bootup. Why? How do I fix this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Andy
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 From man snd_via8233:

Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the 
following line in loader.conf(5):

snd_via8233_load="YES"