Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 08:57:16 -0700 From: Mike Brown <mwbrown@halfzero.net> To: "Michael R. Wayne" <wayne@staff.msen.com>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sound disappeared on Dell Inspirion 8100 Message-ID: <3EB2955C.3080106@halfzero.net> In-Reply-To: <200305021552.h42Fqhbu064453@manor.msen.com> References: <200305021552.h42Fqhbu064453@manor.msen.com>
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Michael R. Wayne wrote: >I had 4.5 installed on my Dell Inspirion 8100 and sound worked OK. >Then, I upgraded to 4.7 and the machine acted like sound was muted. >I just upgraded to 4.8 and there has been no change. > >Sound works fine under Win2K so the hardware is OK. > >The kernel sees the sound card: > cat /dev/sndstat > FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) > Installed devices: > pcm0: <ESS Technology Maestro3> at io 0xdc00 irq 5 (4p/1r/0v channels duplex) > >and I can run programs that use the sound card: > mpg123 Heart-Barracuda.mp3 > High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2 and 3. > Version 0.59r (1999/Jun/15). Written and copyrights by Michael Hipp. > Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more! > THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! > > Playing MPEG stream from Heart-Barracuda.mp3 ... > MPEG 1.0 layer III, 128 kbit/s, 44100 Hz stereo > >but nothing comes out the speakers. > >It's as though a mute switch has been hit. I tried toggling the mute >(ALT-End), hitting volume up (ALT-Page Up and the buttons near the >power switch) with no efect. > >I'm at a loss as to what to try next. Any ideas? > >/\/\ \/\/ >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > What do you use for a sound driver? Through all version of FreeBSD I've tried on my Inspiron 8200, snd_ich has worked for me each time. Just 'kldload snd_ich' or put snd_ich_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf. The only problem I have with that driver is only one program can access the sound card at a time, and I haven't found a way around that yet, if anyone has, please let me know :) -Mike Brown mwbrown@halfzero.net
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