Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:54:27 -0700 From: Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help needed: sound/audio only semi-working Message-ID: <8739ejz2ks.fsf@oak.localnet> In-Reply-To: <87aa8t6442.fsf@oak.localnet> (Carl Johnson's message of "Fri, 21 Oct 2011 21:29:33 -0700") References: <20331.1319246965@tristatelogic.com> <87aa8t6442.fsf@oak.localnet>
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Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> writes: > "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> writes: > >> I've been bringing up a new amd64 box with 8.2-RELEASE. So far I've managed >> to get everything installed OK, including a boatload of freshly-built ports. >> I've even gotten flash10 working with firefox... well... >> >> Unfortunately, this is only MOSTLY working. The video works great, but for >> audio all I get is absolute silence. __snip__ > I also have a Gigabyte board with HDA audio, and it won't directly play > CD sound either. I had already ripped all of my CDs to .ogg files, so I > hadn't needed to play the CDs directly. I just tested ripping a small > section of a CD using cdparanoia and it does produce a .wav audio file > that can be played using sox. I also notice on my computer that mixer > doesn't show any controls for CD audio. Unfortunately, I don't remember > if CDs worked properly on this computer when I had Linux installed, so I > don't know if the problem is FreeBSD or the motherboard. I did find > that I have a program called kscd (for KDE) that will play, but I > suspect that it uses digital extraction instead of playing from audio. > > My system uses a Gigabyte GA-MA785GPM-US2H, and the sndstat output is: > FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2009061500/amd64) > Installed devices: > pcm0: <HDA ATI RS690/780 HDMI PCM #0 HDMI> (play) > pcm1: <HDA Realtek ALC885 PCM #0 Analog> (play/rec) default > pcm2: <HDA Realtek ALC885 PCM #1 Analog> (play/rec) > pcm3: <HDA Realtek ALC885 PCM #2 Digital> (play/rec) Just to follow up, I just rebooted into Linux and the CD audio appears to work properly on it and the CD mixer control seems to work properly. I have FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE, so it may have changed since then. -- Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org
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