Re: No sound from snd_hda

2008-12-23 Thread Alexander Motin
Steve Franks wrote:
> Should I be asking you about the old snd_hda?  I'm having this same
> problem and ignoring it for some time (no sound), but on
> 
> FreeBSD aire.franks-development.dyndns.biz 6.4-STABLE FreeBSD
> 6.4-STABLE #9: Sat Dec 13 18:25:36 MST 2008
> r...@aire.franks-development.dyndns.biz:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> amd64
> 
> instead of current.  

Just take HDA driver from CURRENT, it works fine on RELENG_7 and I think
it may work on your RELENG_6.

> I read the warning:
> 
>  A few Hardware/OEM vendors tend to screw up BIOS settings, thus rendering
>  the snd_hda driver useless, which usually results in a state where the
>  snd_hda driver seems to attach and work, but without any sound.

Such unresolved cases are happen sometimes, but they are really rare. I
have being reported only 2 or 3 of them while working on new driver.
Absolute majority of devices working fine out of the box, or sometimes
require minimal tuning to fix BIOS issues.

-- 
Alexander Motin
___
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"


Re: No sound from snd_hda

2008-12-22 Thread Steve Franks
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Alexander Motin  wrote:
> Damian Gerow wrote:
>>
>> I've got an Intel HDA device that is sort-of detected, but I get no sound
>> from it:
>>
>> -
>> FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2007061600/amd64)
>> Installed devices:
>> pcm0:  at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0 kld
>> snd_hda [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/1r:1v channels duplex default)
>> pcm1:  at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0 kld
>> snd_hda [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/1r:1v channels duplex)
>> -
>>
>> The same device looked almost exactly the same on a 7.1-BETA build, but I
>> actually had audio output.
>>
>> I've checked the mixer device, tried muting and unmuting various channels,
>> all to no avail.  The audio devices are created, and every program I've
>> tried opens them successfully, but I get no actual sound.
>>
>> I've tried searching around, but I haven't been able to turn anything up.
>> Is there something I'm missing?  Something I should be doing that I'm not?
>
> You are missing new snd_hda man page reading. RTFM. :)
>
> 1) Read new man page;
> 2) Driver provides you two pcm devices for different purposes, so try to use
> both (as man page recommends);
> 3) If your system has several audio connectors - try all of them, they are
> not equal any more.
> 4) Boot with verbose logs enabled to get much more information about your
> codec and driver operation (as man page recommends);
> 5) Connexant audio codecs are rare, so send your verbose output to me, I
> would like to see it.
>
> --
> Alexander Motin
> ___
> freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
>

Should I be asking you about the old snd_hda?  I'm having this same
problem and ignoring it for some time (no sound), but on

FreeBSD aire.franks-development.dyndns.biz 6.4-STABLE FreeBSD
6.4-STABLE #9: Sat Dec 13 18:25:36 MST 2008
r...@aire.franks-development.dyndns.biz:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
amd64

instead of current.  I read the warning:

 A few Hardware/OEM vendors tend to screw up BIOS settings, thus rendering
 the snd_hda driver useless, which usually results in a state where the
 snd_hda driver seems to attach and work, but without any sound.

In the man page, and I suspect that may be my problem.  Chipset is
Intel.  I played with the bios, but only got it to be worse (snd_hda
not detected at all).

[st...@aire ~]$ cat /dev/sndstat
FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
Installed devices:
pcm0:  at memory
0xfdff8000 irq 16 kld snd_hda [20071129_0050] (1p/1r/1v channels
duplex default)

Is there any further info that would help?  I've been limping along on
a usb dongle and it's a bit sad ;)

Thanks,
Steve
___
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"