From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 31 13:27:20 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF0AA106564A for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:27:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from CQG00620@nifty.ne.jp) Received: from mail.asahi-net.or.jp (mail2.asahi-net.or.jp [202.224.39.198]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A509D8FC1B for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:27:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from CQG00620@nifty.ne.jp) Received: from asahi-net.jp (i223105.dynamic.ppp.asahi-net.or.jp [61.125.223.105]) by mail.asahi-net.or.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81B4B5F74D; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:09:58 +0900 (JST) Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:09:53 +0900 From: WATANABE Kazuhiro To: freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: <391934950807300450s236217d1yadd5dfe78969ae50@mail.gmail.com> References: <391934950807300450s236217d1yadd5dfe78969ae50@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.8 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Shij=F2?=) APEL/10.7 Emacs/21.3 (i386--freebsd) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-Id: <20080731130958.81B4B5F74D@mail.asahi-net.or.jp> Cc: Rommel Martinez Subject: Re: Very very weak sound from the speaker X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:27:20 -0000 Hello. At Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:50:50 +0800, Rommel Martinez wrote: > I'm wondering why is it that no matter what I do, I can't seem to make > my laptop emit sound lounder than a whisper. The laptop is an ECS > Elitegroup W330 (Arima W330-UCX) and this is the website of the > laptop: http://www.arimacorp.com/ViewProduct.asp?View=145 > > I thought at first there was no sound coming out at all, so what I did was I > plugged an external speaker to it and maxed out the volume via the > volume knob and set my mixer settings all to 100, then I was able to > hear sound from the speaker, but it's too weak to be of any good use. > > The following is my configuration: > > $ cat /boot/loader.conf | grep snd_ > snd_ich_load="YES" > > $ kldstat | grep snd_ > 3 1 0xc0d30000 6f88 snd_ich.ko > > $ kldstat | grep sound > 4 2 0xc0d37000 4a5ac sound.ko > > $ cat /var/run/dmesg.boot | grep pcm > pcm0: port 0x5000-0x50ff,0x48c0-0x48ff mem > 0xb0040800-0xb00409ff,0xb0040400-0xb00404ff irq 20 at device 30.2 on > pci0 > pcm0: [ITHREAD] > pcm0: > > $ cat /dev/sndstat > FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2007061600/i386) > Installed devices: > pcm0: at io 0xb0040800, 0xb0040400 irq 20 bufsz > 16384 kld snd_ich [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/1r:1v channels duplex default) > > $ mixer > Mixer vol is currently set to 100:100 > Mixer pcm is currently set to 100:100 > Mixer speaker is currently set to 100:100 > Mixer line is currently set to 100:100 > Mixer mic is currently set to 100:100 > Mixer cd is currently set to 100:100 > Mixer rec is currently set to 100:100 > Mixer igain is currently set to 100:100 > Mixer ogain is currently set to 100:100 > Mixer line1 is currently set to 100:100 > Mixer phin is currently set to 100:100 > Mixer phout is currently set to 100:100 > Recording source: mic > > I tried audacious, xmms, and mpg123 but I still get > the same behaviour. > > What's causing this? Can anybody give pointers why > is this happening? > > Thanks. Can you show me the output of "pciconf -lv | grep -A4 ^pcm" ? --- WATANABE Kazuhiro (CQG00620@nifty.ne.jp)