Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:37:23 -0500 From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: getting sound to work, and also my nvidia 8600GTS Message-ID: <47C59FD3.9070902@chuckr.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I juat had a bad time wtih a balky raid array. It's back now, but I can't seem to get my Nvidia-based video driver, or audio to wrk I'm runnning FreeBSD-current. I've got a 8600-GTS Nvidia care, which ran using the old 100.14.19 version just fine. I first ran it from my own debugged bersion, but soon the port caught up, and i moved to using the port. Well, about 2 weeks ago, I began seeing this behavior: During boot, I would get (at the very end of probing, just before rc.conf completed) a boldface print to the console of "hdaudio0:[ITHREAD]", whereupon it would seize up. Since rc.conf hadn't finished, I couldn't bring up a vterm to kill it, nor could I log in via ssh. It wouod just hang. I tried waiting as long as an hour, but finally needed to reboot to fix this. I figured it was a problem with my raid, because I had one drive giving me lots of errors, and figured I had a missing block, something like that, but after replacing that drive and fixing things back up, the behaviour remains. I tried not loading any drivers, and doing it instead after my machine went multiuser, and found then it was the oss(4.0) driver that was doing it to me. If I run "soundon" manually, or the oss rc.d script manually, I can kill the process with kill and things work ok, but the sound never completes, and I never see any of the /dev/oss items, nor do I see any of the dsp* files in /dev/. I found, by looking at the osscore, it wants the hdaudio.ko to be running, and according to kldstat, it's NOT there, but if I try to load it via kldload, it tells me it's already running. Like I said, no /dev sound-type files get created. I tried catting /dev/sndstat, and it tells me that oss4.0 is runnig, and it knows about the hdaudio, I just can't get anything created in /dev, so no output from things like mpg123, none at all. I have tried runnning (instead of oss) soound.ko and snd_hda.ko, but no sound files get created in dev still, except, catting /dev/sndstat tells me that pcm sound is working fine. Any idea what I'm going wrong? Maybe I should drop this at this point, but my nvidia.ko file, which is the driver for my 8600 GTS card, it never seems to get started. How do I know this? Because the /dev/nvidiactl file doesn't get made. I am running devfs. Is this the right one for current? I'm not running devd, is that right. or maybe should I run both devd AND devfs? Or, anyone know which one is the right one to run? I need to get nvidiactl to be created, like it used to do 2 weeks ago. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHxZ/Tz62J6PPcoOkRAhS7AJ9jbFw/4c46rGE25cGyKpkTsX3HVgCgjCUC MxkfkGOMmrEpoN3uR3Vt6bo= =IQDa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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