Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 06:41:37 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, Andrea Bittau <a.bittau@cs.ucl.ac.uk>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HDA sound driver mod for sigmatel 92xx Message-ID: <44BB7771.6070403@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20060717155747.6170bcf2@localhost> References: <20060606124030.GA32057@shorty.sorbonet.org> <4485CEF8.10201@centtech.com> <20060606192229.GA4465@shorty.sorbonet.org> <4485DA6D.9020304@centtech.com> <4485E199.7000604@centtech.com> <20060606205918.GA6765@shorty.sorbonet.org> <20060606231025.R50560@volatile.chemikals.org> <20060607073918.GB9245@shorty.sorbonet.org> <448CE5A0.70806@centtech.com> <20060709093252.S31266@volatile.chemikals.org> <20060709141724.GA33010@shorty.sorbonet.org> <20060717113622.7ee97e3a@localhost> <20060717155747.6170bcf2@localhost>
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On 07/17/06 00:57, Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:36:22 +1000 > Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> wrote: > >> On Sun, 9 Jul 2006 15:17:24 +0100 >> Andrea Bittau <a.bittau@cs.ucl.ac.uk> wrote: >> >>> by the way, I got a version which should record stuff too: >>> http://darkircop.org/hdac-rec.tgz >> Hi all, >> I downloaded and tried this last night . It works great, including with Skype >> (for me, main reason for having sound really :) ). Thanks!! >> >> Some things though (and you probably know them already): >> - /usr/sbin/mixer (6.1 from yesterday) sees 2 devices, vol and rec, but no >> recording device (even setting =rec rec doesnt work). BUT setting the volume >> to the rec device does work.... strange: >> >> >> [betom@ayiin] [Mon Jul 17 11:27:36 2006] >> /usr/home/betom >> $ mixer >> Mixer vol is currently set to 100:100 >> Mixer rec is currently set to 90:90 >> Recording source: >> >> [betom@ayiin] [Mon Jul 17 11:31:36 2006] >> /usr/home/betom >> $ mixer =rec rec >> mixer: unknown recording device: rec >> usage: mixer [-f device] [-s | -S] [dev [+|-][voll[:[+|-]volr]] ... >> mixer [-f device] [-s | -S] recsrc ... >> mixer [-f device] [-s | -S] {^|+|-|=}rec rdev ... >> devices: vol, rec >> rec devices: >> >> - How stable is the support for resume on a laptop? I got a couple of crashes >> on resume ( one a hard lock, the other what seemed like really slow access to >> HD, but in-memory apps were ok...ended up having to hard boot it). Just now, >> it has worked fine, so I haven't any hard evidence yet to point it to >> hdac.ko . >> >> Unloading from devd , suspend, resume, reload from devd works every time, but >> hdac cannot be unloaded when XFCE is running as xfce4-panel and >> xfce-mcs-manager keep mixer0 open: >> >> [betom@ayiin] [Mon Jul 17 11:31:45 2006] >> /usr/home/betom >> $ fstat | grep mixer >> betom xfce4-panel 1237 12 /dev 113 crw-rw-rw- mixer0 rw >> betom xfce-mcs-manager 1223 5 /dev 113 crw-rw-rw- mixer0 rw >> >> I'm thinking of installing one of the sound daemons (arts ? ) and route >> everything sound-related through it. then shut down artsd from my >> acpi_shutdown script , unload hdac and bring it back up... we'll see how >> that goes. > > Another strange thing, not sure if related to the hdac-rec driver: > - videos from youtube dont have any sound. Flash 7, FFox > firefox-1.5.0.4,1 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla > firefox-remote-20040803 Wrapper scripts for firefox web browser > linux-flashplugin-7.0r63 The official Macromedia Flash Player for Linux Mozilla > and > > Sound *does* work in other flash-powered sites : > http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/flashpro/ has a marketing video from > adobe, and it works just fine. > > FWIW, i get a completely hung FFox when using video.google.com (when trying to > watch a video), or any site that references video.google.com. > > Beto I had the same problem with google video, until I switched to linux-firefox, which works amazingly well. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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