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Date:      Fri, 1 Jan 2010 12:56:00 +0100
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Manish Jain <invalid.pointer@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Need help configuring upsd, sound and logo saver on freebsd 8.0
Message-ID:  <20100101115600.GA69250@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <4B3DDCDE.4040205@gmail.com>
References:  <4B3DDCDE.4040205@gmail.com>

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On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 05:00:38PM +0530, Manish Jain wrote:
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> I recently installed FreeBSD 8.0 on my amd64 system attached to an APC=20
> UPS via USB and a RealTek HDA onboard soundcard. I chose 'logo' as the=20
> screensaver during installation, and put snd_hda_load=3D"YES" in=20
> /boot/loader.conf and upsd_enable=3D"YES" in /etc/rc.conf.
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> On booting, the sound driver gets loaded successfully and the APC UPS is=
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> also detected (although there is no mention of the UPS in the output of=
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> dmesg). I have the following problems :

If there is nothing in dmesg, how do you know if it is detected?

> 1) There is no sound. AFAIK, there is a sysctl parameter to be tuned for=
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> setting the correct audio channel (in my case hdac1), but I have=20
> forgotten the parameter name. Can someone please remind me ?

I think 'hw.snd.default_unit' is the one you are looking for. The command '=
cat
/dev/sndstat' gives you an overview of which devices are available.

Also have a look at the output of 'mixer'. Maybe some volume is just set to
0. :-)

> 2) upsd complains of inappropriate ioctl no matter which USB device node=
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> I set in /usr/local/etc/upsd.conf. How can I set the device name=20
> correctly so that the OS can shut itself down properly on extended power=
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> failure ?

If the UPS daemon acts as a serial device, it binds to the ucom(4) driver. =
So
you'd expect to see a /dev/cuaU? and /dev/ttyU? device.
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> 3) For my console saver ('logo'), I get the following error message at=20
> boot-time :
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> module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (logo_saver, 0xffffffff81044010, 0) error =
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Can't help you here. I never use it.

Roland
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R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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