Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 12:12:43 -0300 From: Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Will installing a separate sound card work? (follow up) Message-ID: <20160911121243.7a57ca24@Papi> In-Reply-To: <VI1PR02MB0974245A63E0A5938C14B131C2FD0@VI1PR02MB0974.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> References: <VI1PR02MB0974245A63E0A5938C14B131C2FD0@VI1PR02MB0974.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com>
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On Sat, 10 Sep 2016 17:48:23 +0000 Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > In my computer hardware upgrade project (which has already seen me > switch 3 motherboards and 2 CPU's in 1 month), I have reached a point > where I need to invest a bit further. My current Gigabyte GA970 > motherboard is working perfectly, except that the onboard sound > (Realtek) is aweful, with a whole lot of high-pitch hiss accompanying > the sound whenever I try to play any music. > > I would like to solve the problem by installing a separate internal > sound card - the best option appears to be Asus Xonar DG PCI Internal > Sound Card with a C-Media CMI8786 chipset. Will my idea of disabling > the onboard sound and installing the separate card work ? My > motherboard's BIOS does provide the option to disable the onboard > sound. So I think the question simply boils down to whether the > CMI8786 chipset be supported by the FreeBSD kernel. > > Thanks for any help. > Manish Jain > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Complementing with Poly's output: [~]>dmesg | grep ^hda hdac0: <NVIDIA (0x0e0f) HDA Controller> mem 0xfe080000-0xfe083fff irq 25 at device 0.1 on pci1 hdac1: <ATI SB600 HDA Controller> mem 0xfe400000-0xfe403fff irq 16 at device 20.2 on pci0 hdacc0: <NVIDIA(0x0051) HDA CODEC> at cad 0 on hdac0 hdaa0: <NVIDIA (0x0051) Audio Function Group> at nid 1 on hdacc0 hdacc1: <Realtek ALC892 HDA CODEC> at cad 0 on hdac1 hdaa1: <Realtek ALC892 Audio Function Group> at nid 1 on hdacc1 # Papi/root [12:09:52] [~]>dmesg | grep ^pcm pcm0: <NVIDIA (0x0051) (HDMI/DP 8ch)> at nid 4 on hdaa0 pcm1: <NVIDIA (0x0051) (HDMI/DP 8ch)> at nid 5 on hdaa0 pcm2: <Realtek ALC892 (Rear Analog 7.1/2.0)> at nid 20,22,21,23 and 24,26 on hdaa1 pcm3: <Realtek ALC892 (Front Analog)> at nid 27 and 25 on hdaa1 pcm4: <Realtek ALC892 (Onboard Digital)> at nid 17 on hdaa1 pcm5: <Realtek ALC892 (Rear Digital)> at nid 30 on hdaa1 -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] "UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things."
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