SND_CMI(4)

📦 version 15.1, in freebsd 14.5, freebsd 15.1, nixpkgs unstable

💖 SND_CMI(4) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the snd_cmi page — it lives in the Kernel Interfaces Manual section of the SND_CMI(4) docs, and honestly? it's a short one. a little snack of a manpage. but we're gonna read it together, mwah 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

snd_cmi — the CMedia CMI8338/CMI8738 PCI bridge device driver. that's it, that's the whole vibe. it's the little guy that bridges your PCI slot to your actual sound 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

so there's two ways to get this driver in your life, and it's giving "choose your fighter" ✨

option one: bake it right into the kernel. put these lines in your kernel configuration file:

device sound
device snd_cmi

option two: module girl summer. load it at boot time instead, by putting this line in loader.conf(5):

snd_cmi_load="YES"

both are valid. both are iconic. pick your lane 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

the snd_cmi bridge driver lets the generic audio driver sound(4) attach itself to your CMedia CMI8338/CMI8738 audio cards. that's the whole job. it's a bridge. it bridges. lowkey a matchmaker for your hardware and your sound stack 💖

🌈 HARDWARE 🌈

the snd_cmi driver supports these sound cards, and yes we're listing all of them, no skips:

  • CMedia CMI8338A
  • CMedia CMI8338B
  • CMedia CMI8738
  • CMedia CMI8738B

if yours is on this list, slay. if it isn't… well, that's a different story 🍓

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

  • sound(4) — the generic audio driver this one hands off to. go read it, it's the main character energy of the whole sound situation.

🧚 HISTORY 🧚

the snd_cmi device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 4.3. vintage. retro. it's been here a minute and it's still serving 💜

⭐ AUTHORS ⭐

  • Orion Hodson <O.Hodson@cs.ucl.ac.uk> — thank you for your service, king 🙏
ngl, this one's short and sweet — no weird gotchas, no scary warnings, no deprecated anything. just a bridge driver doing its little bridge thing 💀✨

and that's the page, bestie!! this lil doc came to you from Debian, dated December 15, 2005 — so yeah, she's got some age on her, but she's still cute 🎀💖 see you in the next manpage, mwah!! 🫶🌸

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