Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:05:22 +0800 From: Ariff Abdullah <ariff@FreeBSD.org> To: "John Wright" <jwright11@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HDA Codec: Sigmatel (Unknown) Message-ID: <20080315100522.327fb353.ariff@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <a7939a800803141829r6bfeb886re2e8a7ea209c85a1@mail.gmail.com> References: <a7939a800803141829r6bfeb886re2e8a7ea209c85a1@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 01:29:09 +0000
"John Wright" <jwright11@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I'm trying to get my sound system up and running on my Dell Vostro
> 1500 but I'm running into some difficulties. I DO have sound
> playing, but it is playing through the headphone jack, not the
> speakers. Also, there is a built in microphone as well as a mic
> jack, i.e. when I was using Vista I could just talk at my computer
> and it'd record with no external microphone. I've been trying to do
> the same with Krec but I haven't been successful yet. I also DON'T
> have an external mic yet so I haven't been able to test if the mic
> jack is working or not.
>=20
> Thus far the sound seems to be nice when I have headphones on and
> I'm able to control the volume with Kmix and mixer. Things that
> I've noticed and I'm not sure if they're related are that when I
> watch a movie with mplayer the sounds seems to be lagged by maybe a
> quarter or a half of a second. Not too much, but enough to notice,
> which is enough! I'm not quite sure that that's related though.
>=20
> Also, mixer shows that mic is my recording source but mixer doesn't
> show mic as a device!
>=20
> By dmesg it seems that the proper codec isn't getting loaded and I
> wonder if this could be the cause for this behavior. I'll
> appreciate any help I can get. Thanks.
>=20
>=20
> jello# uname -a
> FreeBSD jello.hwresnet.org 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun
> Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008 =20
> root@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>=20
> jello# cat /var/run/dmesg.boot | grep pcm
> pcm0: <Intel 82801H High Definition Audio Controller> mem
> 0xfebfc000-0xfebfffff irq 21 at device 27.0 on pci0
> pcm0: [ITHREAD]
> pcm0: <HDA Codec: Sigmatel (Unknown)>
> pcm0: <HDA Driver Revision: 20071129_0050>
>=20
> jello# cat /dev/sndstat
> FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2007061600/i386)
> Installed devices:
> pcm0: <Intel 82801H High Definition Audio Controller> at memory
> 0xfebfc000 irq 21 kld snd_hda [20071129_0050] [MPSAFE] (1p:2v/1r:1v
> channels duplex default)
>=20
> jello# pciconf -lv | grep -B 4 audio
>=20
> jello# sysctl hw.snd
> hw.snd.latency_profile: 1
> hw.snd.latency: 5
> hw.snd.report_soft_formats: 1
> hw.snd.compat_linux_mmap: 0
> hw.snd.feeder_buffersize: 16384
> hw.snd.feeder_rate_round: 25
> hw.snd.feeder_rate_max: 2016000
> hw.snd.feeder_rate_min: 1
> hw.snd.verbose: 1
> hw.snd.maxautovchans: 16
> hw.snd.default_unit: 0
> hw.snd.version: 2007061600/i386
> hw.snd.default_auto: 0
>=20
> jello# mixer
> Mixer vol is currently set to 33:33
> Mixer pcm is currently set to 19:19
> Mixer speaker is currently set to 18:18
> Mixer line is currently set to 18:18
> Mixer rec is currently set to 47:47
> Recording source: mic
Show the verbose version of dmesg.
Try setting hint.pcm.0.config=3D"gpio1" (it could be gpio0, gpio2, or
combination of any of them).
--
Ariff Abdullah
FreeBSD
... Recording in stereo is obviously too advanced
and confusing for us idiot ***** users :P ........
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