From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 26 13:13:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F34F816A4CE for ; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 13:13:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cusco.plum.be (213.219.185.158.adslpower.by.edpnet.be [213.219.185.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0F5343D1D for ; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 13:13:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marc.plumet@edpnet.be) Received: from edpnet.be (localhost.plum.be [127.0.0.1]) by cusco.plum.be (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5QDJfF4003684 for ; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 15:19:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc.plumet@edpnet.be) Message-ID: <40DD77EC.2060500@edpnet.be> Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 15:19:40 +0200 From: Marc Plumet User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040707 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Sound volume is too low X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 13:13:53 -0000 Problem description: -------------------- Whatever system attached to my soundcard, the output level is too low. Same behaviour with different media player (cdcontrol/mplayer) Same behaviour in Xwindow and in console My system: ---------- Intel PIV - 1.7 GHz, 256 RAM Motherboard : ASRock G PRO Audio : 5.1 Channels AC'97 Audio FreeBSD 5.2.1 (February 2004) Desktop : XFCE Some (hopefully) usefull info: ------------------------------ Xcusco# dmesg | grep pcm pcm0: port 0xd800-0xd87f,0xdc00-0xdcff irq 10 at device 2.7 on pci0 pcm0: Xcusco# ls /dev/dsp* /dev/dsp0.0 /dev/dsp0.1 /dev/dspW0.0 /dev/dspW0.1 /dev/dspr0.0 Xcusco# 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 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 Mixer video is currently set to 100:100 Recording source: mic Xcusco# kldstat -v | grep snd 90 isa/snd_ad1816 91 isa/snd_es1888 92 sbc/snd_ess 94 isa/snd_gusc 95 isa/snd_mss 96 acpi/snd_mss 97 isa/snd_pnpmss 98 gusc/snd_guspcm 99 sbc/snd_sb16 100 sbc/snd_sb8 101 isa/snd_sbc 102 pci/snd_als4000 103 pci/snd_cmi 104 pci/snd_cs4281 105 pci/snd_csa 106 csa/snd_csapcm 107 pci/snd_ds1 108 pci/snd_emu10k1 110 pci/snd_es137x 111 pci/snd_fm801 112 pci/snd_ich 113 pci/snd_maestro 114 pci/snd_neomagic 115 pci/snd_solo 116 pci/snd_t4dwave 117 pci/snd_via8233 118 pci/snd_via82c686 119 pci/snd_vibes 120 snd_pcm 160 msgsnd [Question : which one should I use (cmi ? pcm ? pcm+cmi?) and how to disable the other ?] My questions: -------------- I had a look on internet, in the handbook, in the mailing archive. I found some more or less related topic, like : - driver "forgets" to power on the ouptput amp. - SiS7012 handles by /usr/src/sys/dev/sound/pci/ich.c but nothing help till now. Can someone tell me where to go now ? Thanks a lot in advance. marc