Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:21:47 -0700 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: Shawn Webb <shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org> Cc: vermaden <vermaden@interia.pl>, "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Tragic State of FreeBSD Audio/Sound Message-ID: <CAJ-VmokaPsv6LenBXNo4sz7LF-nejLzUH8WJsbZGns_d%2BQxMfw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <al4oz8xjL5S7qH7h@mutt-hbsd> References: <hkttyyfmuguexmliuhmg@ewtn> <sirudbjwrqwlhpzjpfqf@abqv> <al4oz8xjL5S7qH7h@mutt-hbsd>
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y'all!
please file bugs. like, whenever i have an audio problem i fire off a
bug and then i poke christos on IRC and we figure it out.
I have like 11 laptops running freebsd-16 dating back to a T420 and
early macbook air laptops. I haven't got anything earlier as they
start being i386 and not amd64.
Audio works on all of them just fine.
-adrian
On Mon, 20 Jul 2026 at 07:01, Shawn Webb <shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2026 at 02:04:25AM +0200, vermaden wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > For a start lets define some TERMS. I use UPPERCASE not to shout - but to underline a part of the sentence that is needed to be underlined - this is plain email - I do not have Bold/Underscore/Italic options - keep that in mind - now - to the core of the issue ...
> >
> > I always considered FreeBSD OSS audio/sound subsystem superior to all ALSA/PulseAudio/PipeWire and other dramas from the Linux world ... but not anymore.
> >
> > Somewhere between 14.3-RELEASE and 14.4-RELEASE things begin to get broken - I thought that upgrade to latest and greatest 15.1-RELEASE would solve my issues - as there were LOTS of sound/audio related things.
> >
> > I will not even start about PITA syntax of mixer(1) which went into this:
> >
> > % mixer -f ${DEV} vol.volume=+0.05
> >
> > ... from MUCH MORE friendly syntax.
> >
> > But these random 'boozing' sounds are just unacceptable ... and I can not even tell where they came from ... is it OSS problem? Is is PulseAudio problem? Something in between? Because there is NOTHING in the logs for audio.
> >
> > Its also possible to get that file from my personal 'mediafire.com' account here:
> > - https://mediafire.com/file/jw3cpk8g77rvks2/freebsd-tragic-audio-sound.mp4/file
> >
> > ... and its not some fancy laptop from yesterday ... its a ThinkPad T480 from 2018 for fuck sake - hardware like that used to run smooth as Carlos Sainz 'smooth operator' in Singapore GP ... but not anymore.
> >
> > I do not even know what to add here ... its a message send our of despair ... as newer releases only made these things worse ... I have been repeating this over and over again - but its again probably the issue that 'too less' FreeBSD developers use FreeBSD as their daily driver/desktop/laptop system.
> >
> > Sorry to disappoint.
>
> I've been experiencing audio issues as well since the recent work
> started a little while ago (a year? two years? my chronological memory
> isn't the best.)
>
> It's broken bad enough that I now don't use audio on my systems at
> all. I haven't filed any bug reports, though, because it just hasn't
> been a priority for me. I've got tons of other systems where audio
> works fine and it's not really a bother to use those instead of my
> fbsd/hbsd systems.
>
> The only downside is when I want to make sure the YouTube link I'm
> about to post in random places is really the right one from an audio
> perspective.
>
> Perhaps some day I'll care enough about the problem to actually dig
> in. But for now, I've got higher priority items on my list to tackle.
> I just thought I'd provide another anectodal data point with this
> email.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Shawn Webb
> Cofounder / Security Engineer
> HardenedBSD
>
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