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Originally Posted by adamk
What system diagnostics are you referring to?
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When the sound card refused to respond, PC-BSD asked me if I wanted a diagnostic report. I don't remember if it had a special name. The resulting report showed probe data from the PCI bus, and a large portion of the system boot messages.
I let it save a diagnostic report to a text file, which I later examined. The gist of the messages was that the BSD kernel had a sound driver installed, but that the hardware wasn't one it could work with. I tried a variety of drivers, but none worked. When you mentioned that Dell sometimes uses proprietary chips on some of their hardware, I did some more digging. I eventually concluded that this particular series of SB cards was among the ones to have proprietary chips. Pulling and replacing the card ultimately fixed everything. Both of my operating systems are talking normally.
I know just enough about the "guts" of BSD to be dangerous. I'm slowly learning the ins and outs of the world of the Daemon, but I still tend to err on the side of caution.