From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 2 20:47:16 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EC5A1065692 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 20:47:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hartzell@alerce.com) Received: from merlin.alerce.com (merlin.alerce.com [64.62.142.94]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA24A8FC21 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 20:47:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hartzell@alerce.com) Received: from merlin.alerce.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by merlin.alerce.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5703833C62; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 13:25:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from merlin.alerce.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by merlin.alerce.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1EB333C5B; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 13:25:26 -0700 (PDT) From: George Hartzell MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18661.11810.515902.79084@almost.alerce.com> Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 13:25:06 -0700 To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de In-Reply-To: <20081002194411.387b7f32@ernst.jennejohn.org> References: <1222892584.00020319.1222880402@10.7.7.3> <48E47ADF.7030004@FreeBSD.org> <20081002144243.3f2e7310@ernst.jennejohn.org> <48E4CC6C.6050407@FreeBSD.org> <20081002194411.387b7f32@ernst.jennejohn.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.1.50.1 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:57:01 +0000 Cc: Alexander Motin , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: regression in HDA functionality X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: hartzell@alerce.com List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:47:16 -0000 Gary Jennejohn writes: > On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:28:12 +0300 > Alexander Motin wrote: > > > Gary Jennejohn wrote: > > >>> I can provide verbose boot output from both kernels, if desired. Basically, it looks > > >>> like the headphone output gets disabled with the new driver. > > >> Usually such problem means that you have broken BIOS. Verbose output > > >> usually shows where the problem is and writing some device hints usually > > >> allows to fix the problem. Read updated snd_hda man page and if it not > > >> help - send your verbose output to me. > > > > > > I read the man page but I must admit that it didn't help me any. I > > > tried setting some device hints but they didn't help either. I'm > > > obviously failing to understand something. > > > > > > See dmesg_verbose_amd64 and sndstat under ~gj on freefall. > > > > I don't see any problem there. It is possible that you may just > > misunderstood what you have got. You have: > > pcm0 - SPDIF/HDMI on video card > > pcm1 - rear 7.1 playback and main record > > pcm2 - front headphones playback and mic record > > pcm3 - SPDIF in/out. > > > > So, what the problem is? What are you doing, what expecting and what > > getting? > > > > I'm not getting any sound on the headphones, either plugged into the > back or the front. With the old kernel it just works. You might discover the sound on one of the other pcm devices, that's what happened to me on my mac pro (it's not clear that it should be on the other device, but it works...). Here's a message swell.k sent to the list in response to my query about how to use different devices. g. swell.k@gmail.com writes: > George Hartzell writes: > > [...] > > An even simpler question would be, how can I test the other pcm > > devices? > > If you look closely at /dev/sndstat output you'll notice there is > `default' keyword on one of the pcm's. To change it you have to > set hw.snd.default_unit accordingly. It's documented in sound(4). > Next time you'll run mpg123 it will use different /dev/dsp. >