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From: "Richard L. Mace" <macerl@telkomsa.net>
To: Mark <redtick@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:25:35 +0200
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Subject: Re: snd_hda peculiarities
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On Wednesday 30 December 2009 17:12:35 Mark wrote:
> --- On Wed, 12/30/09, Richard L. Mace <macerl@telkomsa.net> wrote:
> > From: Richard L. Mace <macerl@telkomsa.net>
> > Subject: snd_hda peculiarities
> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > Date: Wednesday, December 30, 2009, 8:45 AM
> > I recently installed FreeBSD 8.0
> > (amd64) on my laptop (HP 8510w) and most
> > things are working. However, a minor annoyance is that I
> > only get sound if I
> > manually load snd_hda via:
> >
> > # kldload snd_hda
> >
> > i.e., after booting. If I place the following in
> > /boot/loader.conf
> >
> > snd_hda_load="YES"
> >
> > I get no sound, even though the driver seems to load and
> > cat /dev/sndstat
> > gives
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >--------------------------------------------- FreeBSD Audio Driver
> > (newpcm: 64bit 2009061500/amd64)
> > Installed devices:
> > pcm0: <HDA Analog Devices AD1981HD PCM #0 Analog> at
> > cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0 kld
> > snd_hda [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/1r:1v channels duplex default)
> > pcm1: <HDA Analog Devices AD1981HD PCM #1 Digital> at
> > cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0 kld
> > snd_hda [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/0r:0v channels simplex)
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >-----------------------------------------------
> >
> > Googling, I found this page:
> >
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2009-June/035677.html
> >
> > Which reports precisely the behaviour I am experiencing. No
> > fix or workaround
> > is suggested.
> >
> > Has anyone with similar hardware managed to get this driver
> > working? Any
> > workarounds to my problem? My audio hardware is...
> >
> > $pciconf -lv
> > <stuff omitted>
> > hdac0@pci0:0:27:0:      class=0x040300
> > card=0x30c5103c chip=0x284b8086
> > rev=0x03 hdr=0x00       
> >     vendor     = 'Intel
> > Corporation'             
> >                
> >                
> >              
> >     device     = 'Intel audio
> > controller embedded with the 82801H chipset (
> > ICH8 chipset ) (82801H)'         
> >                
> >                
> >                
> >                
> >                
> >  
> >     class      = multimedia 
> >                
> >                
> >                
> >                
> >    
> >     subclass   = HDA
> >
> > And I am using
> > $ uname -a
> > FreeBSD belenos 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov
> > 21 15:02:08 UTC
> > 2009     root@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC 
> > amd64
> >
> > Many thanks
> > -Richard
> 
> Try adding sound_load="YES" to the loader.conf HTH
> 

Thanks, but unfortunately result still the same -- no sound.
-Richard