From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 6 20:54:19 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 5E4C216A420 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 20:54:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mailings.freebsd@o0l0o.org) Received: from smartmx-08.inode.at (smartmx-08.inode.at [213.229.60.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C884543D46 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 20:54:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mailings.freebsd@o0l0o.org) Received: from [81.223.62.146] (port=10015 helo=masternotebo.mhr.lan) by smartmx-08.inode.at with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1F6DNJ-0001z7-GU for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2006 21:54:17 +0100 From: FreeBSD Prospect To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 21:54:07 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602062154.07577.mailings.freebsd@o0l0o.org> Subject: nforce2 digital audio output support? (or spdif support at all?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 20:54:19 -0000 Hi! I was searching for more info about support for DOLBY DIGITAL pass-through to a digital audio output, but nothing recent came up. This matter seems to be a serious shortage in FreeBSD, because the only useable info which came up on www.google.com/bsd was concerning NetBSD (http://bsd-crew.de/index.php/5.1-Surround-Sound_mit_NetBSD, which is in German language). There something of an audio-layer is mentioned. Is it really possible, that NetBSD is ahead of FreeBSD in that particular matter? I have a workstation with Asus A7N8X-deluxe motherboard, which features the nforce2 chipset, and has an electrial digital audio output. On my first few tests with FreeBSD 6.0 (-RELEASE), after loading the snd_ich driver, I got analog sound working, but the digital output was not recognized and did not show up in sysctl. Any idea, if spdif support is already in -CURRENT, and if not, if somebody is working on that issue? -- Sincerely, A FreeBSD Prospect, who is actually using Gentoo Linux