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Date:      Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:48:37 +0200
From:      Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
To:        rjk@wintek.com
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Request for help with snd_hda, FreeBSD 8.0, Dell Optiplex 960
Message-ID:  <4B56A745.80408@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <1263946982.00209016.1263934803@10.7.7.3>
References:  <1263946982.00209016.1263934803@10.7.7.3>

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Hi.

Richard Kuhns wrote:
> New year, new OS, new hardware. I've just installed FreeBSD 8 on my new
> Dell Optiplex 960, and overall it's very nice.
> 
> The 960 has 4 audio jacks, 2 in front and 2 in the rear. I can plug the
> speaker cable into the headphone jack and hear output just fine via vlc;
> there's no sound at all with flash, and starting a VM via virtualbox
> always warns me that "some audio devices could not be opened". The
> detail ErrorId is "HostAudioNotResponding".
>
> The other 3 jacks don't do anything at all, as far as I know.

You have 2 analog PCM devices. 2 jacks will be pcm1 playback and record,
2 another - pcm2. If vlc works fine, then probably it is not a driver
problem.

> Output of 'cat /dev/sndstat' is below, and I'm attaching dmesg following
> a verbose boot; and help would be greatly appreciated. I don't care
> about recording anything; I just want to listen to some of my online
> stations.
> 
> Thanks!
>     - Richard
> 
> : rjk$/dev; cat /dev/sndstat
> FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2009061500/i386)
> Installed devices:
> pcm0: <HDA ATI R6xx HDMI PCM #0 HDMI> at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0 kld
> snd_hda [MPSAFE] (1p:2v/0r:0v channels simplex default)
> pcm1: <HDA Analog Devices AD1984A PCM #0 Analog> at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac1
> kld snd_hda [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/1r:1v channels duplex)
> pcm2: <HDA Analog Devices AD1984A PCM #1 Analog> at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac1
> kld snd_hda [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/1r:1v channels duplex)
> : rjk$/dev;

-- 
Alexander Motin



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