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| − | In order to get sound out of your FreeBSD box, you'll need to either load your sound driver module or compile sound support in your kernel -- it's not installed by default. For this you need to use [[kldload]] to load your sound driver. If you don't know which sound card you have -- and therefore don't know which driver to use -- you can load the generic [[snd_driver]] module (in 5.x systems -- in 4.x you need to load the [[snd]] module) like so: | + | In order to get sound out of your FreeBSD box, you'll need to either load your sound driver module or compile sound support in your kernel -- it's not installed by default. For this you need to use [[kldload]] to load your sound driver. If you don't know which sound card you have -- and therefore don't know which driver to use -- you can load the generic [[snd_driver]] module (in 5.x systems -- in 4.x you need to load the [[snd]] module), which works for most cards, like so: |
samizdata# kldload snd_driver | samizdata# kldload snd_driver | ||
| − | + | If that works, you'll probably want it to load automatically at boot time. To do so, you'll want to append a line about snd_driver to your loader.conf: | |
| − | = | + | samizdata# echo snd_driver_load="YES" >> /boot/loader.conf |
| − | + | And presto, when booting, your system will always try to load snd_driver. | |
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Revision as of 23:20, 23 July 2005
In order to get sound out of your FreeBSD box, you'll need to either load your sound driver module or compile sound support in your kernel -- it's not installed by default. For this you need to use kldload to load your sound driver. If you don't know which sound card you have -- and therefore don't know which driver to use -- you can load the generic snd_driver module (in 5.x systems -- in 4.x you need to load the snd module), which works for most cards, like so:
samizdata# kldload snd_driver
If that works, you'll probably want it to load automatically at boot time. To do so, you'll want to append a line about snd_driver to your loader.conf:
samizdata# echo snd_driver_load="YES" >> /boot/loader.conf
And presto, when booting, your system will always try to load snd_driver.
