Re: A question on enabling sound...

[walt <wa1ter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Huub wrote:

> >
> > That should be all you need to do, if that's your sound chipset and it's
> > supported.  Check /var/log/dmesg for error messages.
> >
>
> According to the mainboard data, the chip = VIA VT8235.
> BIOS says: vendor=0x1106, dev=0x3059.
> dmesg | grep 0x3059: pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x1106, dev=0x3059) at 17.5
> irq 11
>
> I tried both snd_pcm_load and snd_via8233_load, and have no sound, so I guess
> DragonFly doesn't support this, whereas Linux and Solaris do (same computer,
> different harddisk). Any chance on support in next release?

Hm.  I confess I don't use my DF machine for multimedia, but I do load the
sound driver at boot, well, just because I can :o)

~# kldstat
Id Refs Address    Size     Name
 1    7 0xc0100000 321d08   kernel
 2    1 0xc0422000 5020     snd_via8233.ko
 3    2 0xc0428000 1c590    snd_pcm.ko

# pciconf -lv (irrelevant output snipped)
pcm0@pci0:17:5: class=0x040100 card=0x18411019 chip=0x30591106 rev=0x50 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'VIA Technologies Inc'
    device   = 'VT8233/33A/8235/8237/8251 AC97 Enhanced Audio Controller - the
8251 controller is different'
    class    = multimedia
    subclass = audio

The trouble I see on my DF machine is that userland apps like
gnome-volume-control complain about 'unknown mixer device'.

Do you see any errors when you load snd_via8233 from a command prompt?