Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 01:13:20 -0700 (MST) From: "Jason W. Barnes" <jbarnes@barnesos.net> To: questions@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Cc: Wayne Barnes <wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu> Subject: Re: maestro3 sound problem on Dell Inspiron 4000 Message-ID: <20041201011145.X8924@c3po.barnesos.net> In-Reply-To: <20041128085127.L33956@conch.corp.verio.net> References: <20041128014254.F28418@c3po.barnesos.net> <20041128085127.L33956@conch.corp.verio.net>
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> > I have been unable to get sound to work on my Dell Inspiron 4000 > > under FreeBSD 5.3. Until last Tuesday I was running 4-STABLE, under which > > sound would work, but only after I had put the computer to sleep (zzz), > > and then brought it back up. Before that, any attempt to play sound > > resulted in an application that thought it was playing sound, but no > > actual audio emanations from the laptop. > > I have the same sound chip on a dell 8000. I used to have kick the sound driver > under 4.x by running mixer 0 followed by mixer 60. In other words, turn the > volume to 0 and then put it back to the level I normally used. I have also used > the the trick of unloading the module and then loading it again. I don't know > if these will help in 5.3. Awesome, thanks for your help. Jiggering with unloading and reloading the snd_maestro3 kernel module, followed by a 'mixer 75' in various combinations does seem to eventually work. - J
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