y'all! please file bugs. like, whenever i have an audio problem i fire off a bug and then i poke christos on IRC and we figure it out.
I have like 11 laptops running freebsd-16 dating back to a T420 and early macbook air laptops. I haven't got anything earlier as they start being i386 and not amd64. Audio works on all of them just fine. -adrian On Mon, 20 Jul 2026 at 07:01, Shawn Webb <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2026 at 02:04:25AM +0200, vermaden wrote: > > Hi. > > > > For a start lets define some TERMS. I use UPPERCASE not to shout - but to > > underline a part of the sentence that is needed to be underlined - this is > > plain email - I do not have Bold/Underscore/Italic options - keep that in > > mind - now - to the core of the issue ... > > > > I always considered FreeBSD OSS audio/sound subsystem superior to all > > ALSA/PulseAudio/PipeWire and other dramas from the Linux world ... but not > > anymore. > > > > Somewhere between 14.3-RELEASE and 14.4-RELEASE things begin to get broken > > - I thought that upgrade to latest and greatest 15.1-RELEASE would solve my > > issues - as there were LOTS of sound/audio related things. > > > > I will not even start about PITA syntax of mixer(1) which went into this: > > > > % mixer -f ${DEV} vol.volume=+0.05 > > > > ... from MUCH MORE friendly syntax. > > > > But these random 'boozing' sounds are just unacceptable ... and I can not > > even tell where they came from ... is it OSS problem? Is is PulseAudio > > problem? Something in between? Because there is NOTHING in the logs for > > audio. > > > > Its also possible to get that file from my personal 'mediafire.com' account > > here: > > - > > https://mediafire.com/file/jw3cpk8g77rvks2/freebsd-tragic-audio-sound.mp4/file > > > > ... and its not some fancy laptop from yesterday ... its a ThinkPad T480 > > from 2018 for fuck sake - hardware like that used to run smooth as Carlos > > Sainz 'smooth operator' in Singapore GP ... but not anymore. > > > > I do not even know what to add here ... its a message send our of despair > > ... as newer releases only made these things worse ... I have been > > repeating this over and over again - but its again probably the issue that > > 'too less' FreeBSD developers use FreeBSD as their daily > > driver/desktop/laptop system. > > > > Sorry to disappoint. > > I've been experiencing audio issues as well since the recent work > started a little while ago (a year? two years? my chronological memory > isn't the best.) > > It's broken bad enough that I now don't use audio on my systems at > all. I haven't filed any bug reports, though, because it just hasn't > been a priority for me. I've got tons of other systems where audio > works fine and it's not really a bother to use those instead of my > fbsd/hbsd systems. > > The only downside is when I want to make sure the YouTube link I'm > about to post in random places is really the right one from an audio > perspective. > > Perhaps some day I'll care enough about the problem to actually dig > in. But for now, I've got higher priority items on my list to tackle. > I just thought I'd provide another anectodal data point with this > email. > > Thanks, > > -- > Shawn Webb > Cofounder / Security Engineer > HardenedBSD > > Signal Username: shawn_webb.74 > Tor-ified Signal: +1 (719) 756-1197 / activist_opsec.27 > https://git.hardenedbsd.org/hardenedbsd/pubkeys/-/raw/master/Shawn_Webb/03A4CBEBB82EA5A67D9F3853FF2E67A277F8E1FA.pub.asc
