Setting Up the Sound card on FreeBSD 8.1

The simplest way to setting up sound on FreeBSD to load universal kernel module kldload:
howtobsd# kldload snd_driver

snd_driver is driver, that include itself supporting the most popular sound card drivers.

But I think better to install kernel with support exactly yours sound card. For this way we have to identify device model:
slim# pciconf -lv | grep audio
device = 'Intel audio controller embedded with the 82801H chipset ( ICH8 chipset ) (82801H)'

find this sound card in the Hardware Notes :

and make kernel with options:

device sound
device snd_hda

You also can load driver without configuring kernel. Add in /boot/loader.conf:
snd_hda_load=”YES”

Posted on October 21st, 2010 by admin
Filed under: Hardware