From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 19 18:01:52 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F9E316A528; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:01:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a.pirko@inode.at) Received: from mx.inode.at (lb01nat15.inode.at [62.99.145.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AFCC43D5A; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:01:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from a.pirko@inode.at) Received: from [85.124.24.139] (port=14310 helo=[192.168.1.11]) by smartmx-13.inode.at with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GPjui-0001QG-Ci; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:01:44 +0200 Message-ID: <45103087.3040504@inode.at> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:01:43 +0200 From: Armin Pirkovitsch User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060916) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bubbles Bug References: <66da99bc0609191040j13926376yb3e49bcdb848f732@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <66da99bc0609191040j13926376yb3e49bcdb848f732@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Realtek High Definition Audio on Asus A6Q Laptop X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:01:52 -0000 Bubbles Bug wrote: > Hello: > > I installed FreeBSD 6.1 Release on my Asus A6Q Laptop. > > There is no built-in driver for Realtek High Definition Audio. > > OSS (Open Sound System) can drive it, > > but there were some problems. > > Gnome's default media player Totem cannot play (device problem). > mp3blaster cannot find device. > > XMMS can play normally, but "volume control" and "balance" malfunction. > /dev/mixer exists. > My head phone plugged had no sound. > > During the test done by OSS > I can hear music from my head phone. > > It seems to be a problem abount switching output channel. > How can I switch it dynamically and easily? the channel switching sounds like an oss problem to me imho... however - some developers currently work on a native driver for HDA which works fine for me. You can fetch it at http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/HDA/ you also might want to have a look at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2006-September/thread.html and you should probably send further questions to the multimedia list -- Armin Pirkovitsch a.pirko@inode.at