When I installed FreeBSD[2] 8.1-beta1 on my PowerMac G4[1], I could load the snd_ai2s module with just snd_ai2s_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf

After upgrading to FreeBSD 8.2-prerelease (using csup / make buildworld), it complained during boot:

KLD file snd_ai2s.ko is missing dependencies

and when running 'kldstat' the snd_ai2s module wasn't loaded. If I did 'kldload snd_ai2s' from the command line it loaded fine. Now I find that I need the following in /boot/loader.conf in order for the snd_ai2s module to load: sound_load="YES" snd_ai2s_load="YES"

Is it supposed to work like that?

References: 1) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/powermac_g4 2) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/powermac_g4_freebsd