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Date:      Sat, 18 Nov 2000 12:31:51 +0800
From:      "S.W.Liu" <hhh@ns.ciac.jl.cn>
To:        "Tim McMillen" <timcm@umich.edu>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: pcm0/AC'97 sound problems
Message-ID:  <000701c05118$7927f2a0$317be29f@11>
References:  <Pine.SOL.4.10.10011171330400.8156-100000@joust.gpcc.itd.umich.edu>

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu>
To: O. Hartmann <ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de>
Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 2:35 AM
Subject: Re: pcm0/AC'97 sound problems


> 
> 
> Yes support for the VIA VT82C686A was just added into the pcm driver in
> 4.2RC1, so I thnk everything is just not quite working yet.
> I have that chip on my mobo too, and did the same thing and after MAKEDEV
> /dev/snd0 I ran XMMS. It played out only white noise.
> So maybe just wait a bit for the improvement.  Or try mailing the pcm
> driver authors?
> 
In FreeBSD-current(Nov.7 2000), VIA AC97 is not supported well now! Its sound very ugly!
> Tim
> 
> On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, O. Hartmann wrote:
> 
> > Dear Sirs.
> > On one of our mainboards (DFI AK74-SE) we have AC'97 sound and 
> > FreeBSD 4.2-BETA seems to recognize pcm0 device 
> > ( pcm0: <VIA VT82C686A AC'97 Audio> )
> > 
> > but I have no access to the sound device! Well, I'm not sure that
> > I selected the right options in the kernel (only pcm0) and I did
> > only MAKEDEV /dev/snd0, nothing else like recommended in the man page
> > for pcm. I compiled amp and took a small mp3 for testing purposes,
> > but amp reports that it could not access audio device ...
> > 
> > Thanks in advance, Oliver
> > 
> > -
> > MfG 
> > O. Hartmann
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