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Subject: Re: sound driver - low volume problem
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On 6/27/05, Jimmy Kimanzi <jimmy@swiftkenya.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I have FreeBSD 5.4 installed on a laptop running KDE - I've managed to
> get the audio working but the volume is very low and I'm not able to
> increase it at all .I'm using the driver below  ( snd_ich ) :
>=20
>=20
> root@jish# cat /dev/sndstat
> FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
> Installed devices:
> pcm0: <SiS 7012> at io 0x1400, 0x1c80 irq 18 bufsz 16384  (1p/1r/4v
> channels duplex default)
>=20
> pcm0: <SiS 7012> port 0x1c80-0x1cff,0x1400-0x14ff irq 18 at device 2.7
> on pci0
> pcm0: <Unknown AC97 Codec (id =3D 0x414c4770)>
>=20
>=20

I've had this same problem when I had a SiS 754 chipset, and it went
away when I switched to a nForce motherboard. The problem doesn't
exist with an ATI 9100 chipset either.