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Date:      Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:02:03 +0300
From:      dawnshade <dawnshade@mail.ru>
To:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ICH6-M audio support for ASUS notebook
Message-ID:  <200511081602.04438.dawnshade@mail.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20051108140901.N72203@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua>
References:  <20051108140901.N72203@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua>

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On Tuesday 08 November 2005 15:35, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote:
> =A0 I'm going to buy a notebook and trying to decide what chipset it shou=
ld
> be built on. Vast majority of Intel-based Centrinos are built on 915GM +
> ICH6-M (Alviso) chipset. As I've read in datasheet ICH6-M contains two
> different sound engines: good old AC97 and new Intel's "High Definition
> audio" (which AFAIK isn't supported by our sound driver). Engines can't
> work together, only one of them can be enabled. I know that our sound
> driver supports AC97 engine, but will it always be sufficient in order to
> use notebook's audio? I suspect different notebooks will have different
> wiring between ICH6-M and codecs. I would like to know positive/negative
> experience with ICH6-M audio on modern ASUS notebooks under FreeBSD (6.* =
or
> CURRENT).
>

with  Acer 4150 work fine:

pcm0@pci0:30:2: class=3D0x040100 card=3D0x007a1025 chip=3D0x266e8086 rev=3D=
0x04=20
hdr=3D0x00
    vendor   =3D 'Intel Corporation'
    device   =3D '82801FB/FR/FW/FRW AC '97 Audio Controller'
    class    =3D multimedia
    subclass =3D audio

pcm0: <Intel ICH6 (82801FB)> port 0xe100-0xe1ff,0xe200-0xe23f mem=20
0xd00c0000-0xd00c01ff,0xd00c0200-0xd00c02ff irq 5 at device 30.2 on pci0
pcm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
pcm0: <Unknown AC97 Codec (id =3D 0x414c4752)>

uname -sr
=46reeBSD 6.0-RELEASE

The same chipset - 915GM + ICH6 + Centrino




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