From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 24 00:19:28 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA7581065674 for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:19:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carlj@peak.org) Received: from redcondor1.peak.org (redcondor1.peak.org [69.59.192.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8905B8FC12 for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:19:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zmail-mta02.peak.org ([207.55.16.112]) by redcondor1.peak.org ({e03e86cd-14ae-47ce-9578-3c080ce9c462}) via TCP (outbound) with ESMTP id 20111024001913623 for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:19:13 +0000 X-RC-FROM: X-RC-RCPT: Received: from maple.localnet (unknown [207.55.106.132]) by zmail-mta02.peak.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 59FBA488B92 for ; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:19:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from oak.localnet (oak.localnet [IPv6:2001:1938:266::6f:616b]) by maple.localnet (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A4DD61F12 for ; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:19:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from oak.localnet (localhost.localnet [127.0.0.1]) by oak.localnet (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20A04BD99 for ; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:54:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from carlj@localhost) by oak.localnet (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p9NNsRVl003635; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:54:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from carlj@peak.org) X-Authentication-Warning: oak.localnet: carlj set sender to carlj@peak.org using -f From: Carl Johnson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20331.1319246965@tristatelogic.com> <87aa8t6442.fsf@oak.localnet> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:54:27 -0700 In-Reply-To: <87aa8t6442.fsf@oak.localnet> (Carl Johnson's message of "Fri, 21 Oct 2011 21:29:33 -0700") Message-ID: <8739ejz2ks.fsf@oak.localnet> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: Help needed: sound/audio only semi-working 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: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:19:28 -0000 Carl Johnson writes: > "Ronald F. Guilmette" 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: (play) > pcm1: (play/rec) default > pcm2: (play/rec) > pcm3: (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