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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Why bind to LiveCD /proc before building initramfs ? Post 303001609 by hicksd8 on Tuesday 8th of August 2017 03:43:46 AM
Old 08-08-2017
I think that I understand your question. The 'Live CD' contains all commonly required drivers but those drivers are only loaded if the hardware is actually present. The 'Live CD' is designed so that it can boot on almost all hardware without extra drivers.
 

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SND_EMU10K1(4)						   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 					    SND_EMU10K1(4)

NAME
snd_emu10k1 -- SoundBlaster Live! and Audigy PCI bridge device driver SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file: device sound device snd_emu10k1 Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5): snd_emu10k1_load="YES" DESCRIPTION
The snd_emu10k1 bridge driver allows the generic audio driver sound(4) to attach to the SoundBlaster Live! and Audigy audio cards. Digital output is supported by default. HARDWARE
The snd_emu10k1 driver supports the following sound cards: o Creative SoundBlaster Live! (EMU10K1 Chipset) o Creative SoundBlaster Audigy (EMU10K2 Chipset) o Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 2 (EMU10K2 Chipset) o Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 2 (EMU10K3 Chipset) SEE ALSO
sound(4) HISTORY
The snd_emu10k1 device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 4.1. AUTHORS
David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Orlando Bassotto <orlando.bassotto@ieo-research.it> Cameron Grant <cg@FreeBSD.org> BUGS
Fancy features like DD5.1 output are not supported. BSD
December 15, 2005 BSD
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