SoundBlaster Problem with 8.1R

[Pieter de Goeje]

On Saturday 07 August 2010 13:30:20 Marwan Sultan wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
>  A strange sound problem with FreeBSD 8.1R
> 
>  sound card is : Creative Sound Blaster,  Audigy
> 
>   When pciconf output is follow
>   none1 at pci0:5:4:0:       class=0x040100 card=0x100a1102 chip=0x00071102
> rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor     = 'Creative Technology LTD.'
>   device     = 'Device ID same for both, but Subsystem ID = 0x1012 -
> Extreme Audio, 0x100A - Audigy SE 7.1   (C6SB0410515017656A)' class      =
> multimedia
>   subclass   = audio
> 
>   Means recognizing the sound?
>   cat /dev/sndstat
>   FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2009061500/i386)
>   Installed devices:
>   #

No driver attached to your soundcard.

> 
>   rc.conf
>   # Enable sound-support
>   snddetect_enable="YES"
>   mixer_enable="YES"
> 
> /boot/loader.conf
> snd_emu10kx_load="YES"
> sound_load="YES"
> snd_uaudio_load="YES"
> 
> I tried to load all drivers. but same issue.
> its PCBSD system 8.1
> 
>  Please note sound was working with FreeBSD and PCBSD 7 with no problems.
>  uname -a
> FreeBSD pcbsd-2738 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #1:
> 
>  Any ideas?
> 
>  Thanks
> -Marwan

There is no support for the Audigy ES in FreeBSD. See man snd_emu10kx. If you 
really need it to work you may try the 4front OSS drivers: 
http://www.opensound.com/
These drivers aren't integrated with FreeBSD as well as the normal sound 
drivers.

- Pieter