Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 13:12:00 +0200 From: Jan Bramkamp <crest@rlwinm.de> To: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What Is FreeBSD Missing? Message-ID: <65311a51-d8d2-4367-bd30-bc0956e04781@rlwinm.de> In-Reply-To: <2d3dea20-6bcf-49f8-930e-9250988b2d2b@gmail.com> References: <2d3dea20-6bcf-49f8-930e-9250988b2d2b@gmail.com>
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On 29.06.24 05:54, Steven Friedrich wrote:
> It's missing the Linux magic of routing audio through the video driver
> to the HDMI port. Mint, KDE Neon, etc., produce sound out of the HDMI
> cable, FreeBSD does not.
>
You're confusing multiple things. Mint, KDE, etc. are desktop
environments that aren't supposed to ship their own custom hardware
drivers. Instead the kernel is supposed to have OSS audio drivers for
all audio devices including your GPUs HDMI ports. Unless you GPU driver
lacks audio support the HDMI port should show up in `cat /dev/sndstat`
once the drivers are loaded. At that point you can change your (default)
audio device to select the HDMI audio output. I know for a fact that it
works with both Intel iGPUs and Nvidia GPUs.
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<p>On 29.06.24 05:54, Steven Friedrich wrote:</p>
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dir="auto" role="text">It's missing the Linux magic of routing
audio through the video driver to the HDMI port. Mint, KDE
Neon, etc., produce sound out of the HDMI cable, FreeBSD does
not.</span></p>
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You're confusing multiple things. Mint, KDE, etc. are desktop
environments that aren't supposed to ship their own custom hardware
drivers. Instead the kernel is supposed to have OSS audio drivers
for all audio devices including your GPUs HDMI ports. Unless you GPU
driver lacks audio support the HDMI port should show up in `cat
/dev/sndstat` once the drivers are loaded. At that point you can
change your (default) audio device to select the HDMI audio output.
I know for a fact that it works with both Intel iGPUs and Nvidia
GPUs.<br>
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