From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 23 17:08:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 653A016A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 17:08:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from proxy.hddesign.com (dsl-194.madison.chorus.net [216.165.159.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E54A443D41 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 17:08:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from damon@hddesign.com) Received: from hddesign.com (bob.hddesign.com [192.168.1.254]) by proxy.hddesign.com (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i5NH8Qw0065595 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 12:08:27 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from damon@hddesign.com) Message-ID: <40D9B90A.3020509@hddesign.com> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 12:08:26 -0500 From: Damon Butler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040415 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner: Found to be clean Subject: Sound issues on dual-boot machine X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 17:08:38 -0000 I have a dual-boot FreeBSD/Linux machine. I've had lots of trouble getting sound to work under FreeBSD: sometimes it would, and sometimes it wouldn't, and I could never figure out why. But today I noticed a pattern, and with it, a way to always get sound functioning under FreeBSD. It just doesn't make any sense to me. Here 'tis: Sound functions under FreeBSD only if I boot into Linux first and then reboot the machine into FreeBSD. This sounds rather incredible (to me at least) but here's what I've done to confirm this. (1) Machine is completely off. Boot directly into FreeBSD. Sound doesn't work. (2) Machine is completely off. Boot directly into Linux. Reboot the machine into FreeBSD. Sound works just fine. (3) Machine is completely off. Boot directly into FreeBSD. Sound doesn't work. Reboot machine into Linux. Reboot machine into FreeBSD. Sound works just fine. In no case am I adjusting configuration settings at any time. I'm just rebooting the machine and testing out XMMS and mplayer to see whether or not sound is functioning. Even the most half-baked theories explaining this behavior would be welcome. The machine: Custom-built PC based on Soyo K7ADA motherboard (ALiMAGiK1 1647/1535D+ chipsets), on-board sound (AC97 codec), 1.4 GHz Athlon CPU, 512 Mb DDR RAM, etc. etc. I've got one hard drive devoted to Mandrake Linux and a second hard drive devoted to FreeBSD. I use LILO off of the Linux drive to choose which OS I boot into. Thanks, --Damon