# HowtoSound 

The first step is to figure out if DragonFly supports your sound card.

As root:

    # kldload snd_driver
    # cat /dev/sndstat

If it found your sound device it might say something like this:

    FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
    Installed devices:
    pcm0: <Intel 82801G High Definition Audio Controller> at memory 0xdfef8000 irq 3 snd_hda [20061009_0031] (1p/1r/0v channels duplex)

My device is supported and it is using the snd_hda module.  So now(still as root):

    # kldunload snd_driver
    # kldload snd_hda
    # cd /dev
    # sh MAKEDEV snd0


If I want my sound devices loaded on boot I should add the following lines to /boot/loader.conf:

    sound_load="YES"
    snd_hda_load="YES"

And that's it, sound now works.