[Kernel_Killer]

Well I did the upgrade to 5.3, and now I can't get my built-in sound card to work. It's some VIA chipset built-in sound. In 4.10 'device pcm' did it, but in 5.3 device sound isn't cutting it. I tried kldloading snd_sbc, and snd_emu10k1, but no luck.

[bsdjunkie]

I always use kldload snd_driver. One of those has to work =)

[bmw]

What does dmesg say you have?

I always dread trying to get sound working on yet another hunk of Intel hardware. I end up Googling for a few hours, finding that patches exist for a Linux kernel, doc-diving the manufacturers site, grep'ing the kernel sources and discovering that I need to add a string to the PCI recognition codes, because although it's exactly the same as a Frobozzco Ultra-Whizzy Mk II, this one's a Mk IIa so they changed the PCI code from 0xdeadbeef to 0x00c0ffee.

[Strog]

Mmmm 0x00c0ffee

The stupid sound card on my Intel P4 motherboard pushed me into running NetBSD CURRENT to get it to work. I enjoyed my time on CURRENT with that box but I hate being forced into it or hacking up some patches for a release.

[molotov]

I think device pcm is deprecated in favor of device snd. Man sound should have the required info...

[Kernel_Killer]

Well, I did a "kldload snd_driver" and it seemed to work. It noticed the sound card as pcm0, and then locks.

[soup4you2]

i did this to detemine which i had..

cd /boot/kernel/modules

for ls in snd_*
do
echo $ls
kldload $ls
xmms some.playlist
sleep 5
kldunload $ls
done

that should help in finding the right module you need..

[Kernel_Killer]

Looks like I lack the module dir. Guess that could be an issue.

[bmw]

What about just /boot/kernel/snd* ?

[Kernel_Killer]

aha! I bet this snd_cmi will work. Thanx bmw!

[draconius]

Have you tried using the latest OSS sound drivers? I just got a brand new chaintech av-710 and it wouldnt work at all with fbsd 5.3, no drivers would attach....
check out http://www.opensound.com/oss.html

It worked for me, they support my soundcard which is brand new....and its free too...you only have to buy a license if you are using it for professional stuff or something like that...