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Date:      Thu, 6 Dec 2018 18:05:30 +0100
From:      =?UTF-8?Q?Christian_St=c3=a6rk?= <xi@borderworlds.dk>
To:        David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Trouble with headphones and hda audio
Message-ID:  <85e586a0-1fa0-1e0d-810b-b6f0fcaa457e@borderworlds.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20181206141630.GE1193@albert.catwhisker.org>
References:  <823091a9-1be1-ac78-fdc6-81cc38c04d64@borderworlds.dk> <20181206141630.GE1193@albert.catwhisker.org>

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On 12/6/18 3:16 PM, David Wolfskill wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 03:02:43PM +0100, Christian Stærk wrote:
>
> I have a new laptop. It's running 11.2-RELEASE.
>
> While sound on the speakers works fine, sound through the headphones
> does not.
> .....
> Some of us who had a problem of this nature (in the cases with which I
> am familiar, the headphones produced a loud hissing/static-type noise,
> regardless of volume settings or attempts to play sound through them)
> have found that the circumvention in
> <https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17772>; has been effective.
It works somewhat.

The sound doesn't switch to headphones automatically when they are 
plugged in, but I can change hw.snd.default_unit to 1 and sound will 
then play on the headphones.

Thank you for the tip.

Best regards
Christian



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