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Subject: Re: snd_hda woes on AMD64-based Acer Aspire laptop (6.2-RELEASE)
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On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:38:58 +0000 (UTC)
Andrew <aremo@ngi.it> wrote:
> Hi all,
>=20
> This is a call for help... I'm experiencing audio problems on my
> laptop: when I try to play audio in KDE, the output is very noisy
> and harsh, sometimes briefly stuttering like a skipping CD.
>=20
> I've tried the 'cdcontrol -f /dev/acd0 play 1' test from the VGA
> console (as described in the FreeBSD handbook) but no sound is
> emitted in that case. No amount of knobbing and tuning seems to
> affect the results.
>=20
> My laptop is an Acer Aspire 5101AWLMi (ATI SB450 soundcard) with the
> very latest BIOS, on which I've installed FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE for
> i386, plus the binary kernel objects from Ariff Abdullah's site
> (sndkld_releng6_i386_lowlatency.tar.gz).
>=20
> My dmesg (with uname, etc.) is available at:
>=20
> <http://arem.altervista.org/tmp/snd_hda_dmesg.txt>
>=20
>=20
>From your dmesg:

pcm0: <HDA Driver Revision: 20070317_0042>
                                     ^^^^ (latest should be 0043+)

Please grab the latest. Besides, you need DAE capable cd player
instead of plain analog. Yours doesn't seem to have proper analog CD
connectivity.



--
Ariff Abdullah
FreeBSD

... Recording in stereo is obviously too advanced
    and confusing for us idiot ***** users :P ........

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