snd_ich — Intel ICH AC'97 and compatible bridge device driver
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Description
The snd_ich bridge driver allows the generic audio driver sound(4) to attach to Intel ICH AC'97 and
compatible audio devices.
Some later chips, like ICH6/ICH7, depending on wiring can instead implement newer Intel HD Audio
specification, which is supported by snd_hda(4) driver.
Hardware
The snd_ich driver supports the following audio devices:
• AMD 768
• AMD 8111
• Intel 443MX
• Intel ICH
• Intel ICH revision 1
• Intel ICH2
• Intel ICH3
• Intel ICH4
• Intel ICH5
• Intel ICH6
• Intel ICH7
• NVIDIA nForce
• NVIDIA nForce2
• NVIDIA nForce2 400
• NVIDIA nForce3
• NVIDIA nForce3 250
• NVIDIA nForce4
• SiS 7012
History
The snd_ich device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 4.2.
Name
snd_ich — Intel ICH AC'97 and compatible bridge device driver
See Also
snd_hda(4), sound(4)
Synopsis
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:
devicesounddevicesnd_ich
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):
snd_ich_load="YES"
