I will read the book!!

[Dominic Marks]

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Hey,

> >I have an ES1371 sound card to set up and again in Linux this went ok
> > editing /etc/rc.d/modules.   Any suggestions for setup in Freebsd?

Instead of recompiling the kernel you can simply load the module for the 
sound card. I the same soundcard (ES137) and putting the following line in 
/boot/loader.conf will have sound prepared on boot.

snd_es137x_load="YES"

Personally I prefer that to kernel recompilation. If you want to 
load/unload/view modules check out the man pages for kldload, kldunload, 
kldstat.

> Create a custom kernel file and make sure you add "device pcm", your card
> will automagically be detected at boot time (assuming you have no BIOS
> quirks, I had to set PnP to "no" in mine) and then you can use MAKEDEV to
> create the device nodes.

If you get a message like:

device_probe_and_attach: failed

Then you have a screwy motherboard setup. Either disable PNP OS in the BIOS 
or add the following line to a custom kernel file for your machine:

options	PNPBIOS

> Please see the FreeBSD Handbook (linked from www.freebsd.org) for further
> (full) details with regards to soundcards and rolling a custom kernel.

There is a whole chapter, which from just looking now has had a small 
makeover.

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Dominic
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