From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 30 10:33:10 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AF171065692; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:33:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ianf@clue.co.za) Received: from munchkin.clue.co.za (munchkin.clue.co.za [66.219.59.160]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAC2B8FC0A; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:33:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ianf@clue.co.za) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=simple; s=20070313; d=clue.co.za; h=Received:Received:Received:To:cc:From:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:X-Attribution:Date:Message-Id; b=GI4+Dm7E24m9QwOKSivyNtNUAKmAWv9JhUf/NB9p9ULxk7NfIJwQPBE7XGSaZye8M0TrOzyeMmPXoNWQw11DR5JZpLXFVjiPFUs+QjifAoKDQKuHTqCHtimeIQr/EeffVIMsYHBt+FZKulW2xUDR66lTt3ujn5+/Wwm0ZEYBLLkLitpYcvkutz/XdPnI5nWNdhMvoORQ8NQE7eAJHs84eTG3xJS2OcMfmbpB5XiIV7Y7YCMDL0DYYz6YbZjMRPHa; Received: from uucp by munchkin.clue.co.za with local-rmail (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KkcXe-0003Oz-8n; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:33:18 +0000 Received: from dhcp-125.noc.gp-online.net ([41.161.31.125] helo=clue.co.za) by urchin.clue.co.za with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KkcWa-0005di-PO; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:32:12 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=clue.co.za) by clue.co.za with esmtp (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1KkcWZ-00030f-Ob; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:32:11 +0200 To: Alexander Motin From: Ian FREISLICH In-Reply-To: <48DF589D.1010700@FreeBSD.org> References: <48DF589D.1010700@FreeBSD.org> <48DF32B2.7080407@FreeBSD.org> <48CBF399.9080801@FreeBSD.org> X-Attribution: BOFH Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:32:11 +0200 Message-Id: Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New snd_hda driver came in. X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:33:10 -0000 Alexander Motin wrote: > As I can see, Speaker pin has neither muter nor volume control. In such > case driver usually tries to disable pin OUT control to silent it. > Previous driver does it same way, because of quirks. New driver should > do it automatically, but it doesn't because of broken codec > configuration (see below). > > Did I understand right that on headphone connection speaker volume is > decreasing? May be hardware itself just disables power amplifier on jack > connection, but it does not disconnects it completely, neither the > driver does. The speaker volume is almost silent - it sounds like seepage from headphones when the volume is up. > >>> Also, when playing back, the optical port is activated. > >> Is it good or bad? :) I have no optical ports, but my copper one seems > >> to be enabled only when data stream present there. At least by receiver > >> displays so. > > > > Neither good nor bad. Also, the built in mic has never worked, but > > it looks promising from this boot message. > > Your BIOS writes completely broken configuration into the codec. You > should update it or use device hints to fix the situation. Ok, I'll try fixing in device.hints. It's an Apple MacBook and I have no idea what bios it has and how to update it. > > hdac0: 3 associations found: > > hdac0: Association 0 (1) in: > > hdac0: Pin nid=11 seq=2 > > mic alone, no problem, let it be. Except that I'd actually like to be able to use the mic. Ian -- Ian Freislich