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Date:      Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:58:02 -0800
From:      Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
To:        Joshua Isom <jrisom@gmail.com>
Cc:        Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: No audio whatever....
Message-ID:  <20071218055802.GB86024@thought.org>
In-Reply-To: <5c5ffddc77b36ab1ce9603b513392085@gmail.com>
References:  <20071217210610.GA81881@thought.org> <20071217234134.GA93551@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20071218010210.GA84424@thought.org> <5c5ffddc77b36ab1ce9603b513392085@gmail.com>

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On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 09:02:32PM -0600, Joshua Isom wrote:
> On Dec 17, 2007, at 7:02 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 12:41:34AM +0100, Roland Smith wrote:
> >>On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 01:06:10PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> >>>
> >>>	I realize this may have no easy answer, but suddenly,
> >>>	after a portupgrade -aP. I have no sound.  catting
> >>>	/deev/snstat does tell me that my sound card is there.
> >>>	my volme  is set to 100%.   Where else shoulf I be
> >>>	looking.
> >>
> >>See if the sound server is running. KDE uses aRts, gnome uses esd, 
> >>IIRC.
> >
> >
> >Yes, the arts daemon is running and the esd isn't.  Logged in as
> >Gnomee,, no sound, tho.   Is there something that will tell me
> >why pcm0 is giving me these strange "overruns", "interrupts"
> >and so forth?
> >
> >To the entire list: be very careful about upgrading right now.
> >....
> >
> >gary
> >
> >
> 
> What about using cdcontrol to play a cd?  If your cd-rom drive's hooked 
> up to the audio port on your motherboard, it should skip anything in 
> FreeBSD and go from hardware to speakers.  It might help track down the 
> problem.
o

	Nothing.   I thought I'd get <<<something>>> fromm the -v flag;
	nope.
	,player, and eeverything else "thinks" in playing, but the error
	output from /dev/sndstat is a clue.  What, tho, is the cluue to
	this::

FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
Installed devices:
pcm0: <CS461x PCM Audio> at irq 18 kld snd_csa (1p/1r/2v channels duplex
default)
        [pcm0:record:0:dsp0.0]: spd 44100, fmt 0x10000010, flags
0x00007030, 0x00000000, pid 64702
        interrupts 2649, overruns 0, hfree 4096, sfree 63488
[b:4096/2048/2|bs:65536/4096/16]
        {hardware} -> feeder_root(0x10000010) -> {userland}
        [pcm0:play:0:dsp0.1]: spd 48000, fmt 0x10000010, flags 0x00103020,
0x00000000
        interrupts 494374, underruns 0, ready 0
[b:4096/2048/2|bs:4096/2048/2]
        {userland} -> feeder_vchan_s16(0x10000010) -> {hardware}
        pcm0:play:0:dsp0.1[pcm0:virtual:0:dsp0.2]: spd 44100/48000, fmt
0x10000010, flags 0x10007030, 0x00000010, pid 64702
        interrupts 0, underruns 0, ready 65536
[b:0/2048/0|bs:65536/4096/16]
        {userland} -> feeder_root(0x10000010) -> feeder_rate(44100 ->
48000) -> {hardware}
        pcm0:play:0:dsp0.1[pcm0:virtual:1:dsp0.3]: spd 44100/48000, fmt
0x10000010, flags 0x10000000, 0x00000010
        interrupts 0, underruns 0, ready 0 [b:0/2048/0|bs:131072/4096/32]
        {userland} -> feeder_root(0x10000010) -> feeder_rate(44100 ->
48000) -> {hardware}
p1 21:50 <tao2> [2268]                                      


	There stderr's are probably trace from the pcm/newpcm driver, but
	what cauuses them is the mystery.

> 
> Also, did you upgrade OSS?  OSS uses /usr/src so if you've also done a 
> csup of /usr/src that doesn't match what's installed it's possible you 
> got something screwy to happen.


No, but I did a src upgrade tonight and did a make buuildworld.   I am
upgrade things that were "<"  up-to-date.   Should finish by late morning.
Meanwhile, if anyboody know how I fouled things up, please yell at me.
gary

> 
> Oh, if you get BEL, you're better off than me for that.  I get all of 
> my sound to work except for BEL!
> 

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