From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 30 12:19:35 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A6251065673 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:19:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ebzzry@gmail.com) Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com (fk-out-0910.google.com [209.85.128.188]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 282D68FC19 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:19:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ebzzry@gmail.com) Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k31so540539fkk.11 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:19:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition; bh=wtRcwmmQxefELiRdGzx7czJA9t3TWtI0lxb8dRt/9HE=; b=ClpGIZ88Dao6gmMIN2au7ajT2coxDYEUjP/Pr1pGIMGdHneuFb6vQ0I5otLvDyrvwe EhXob+BDitd0mj3enJyAxE7JOHDTzfZt1J+zfnIgJIaGx78UHy3CURObCh9hngIjDCYB swVYhy0bOKxypZwGqTdI8zVxo3c+KGwuZLEcY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=xm3k+U3WiwhWCcuc/+UmutRQANsXwvVdajcYH3HnhSZTv+iIWBB2qMSAmxMHNW85Ey 0XRJH2We+I7xI65MxZjm5eJ3P6xmFTigYqvpyW63JC8OXyzPTwh0qAMqn/hh69PnfKdC ywacdJB7G9Sv+z8EFW1Dnw77rRmYiwYGHDkiQ= Received: by 10.187.174.16 with SMTP id b16mr152697fap.104.1217418651023; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:50:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.187.243.12 with HTTP; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:50:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <391934950807300450s236217d1yadd5dfe78969ae50@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:50:50 +0800 From: "Rommel Martinez" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Very very weak sound from the speaker 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: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:19:35 -0000 I'm wondering why is it that no matter what I do, I can't seem to make my laptop emit sound lounder than a whisper. The laptop is an ECS Elitegroup W330 (Arima W330-UCX) and this is the website of the laptop: http://www.arimacorp.com/ViewProduct.asp?View=145 I thought at first there was no sound coming out at all, so what I did was I plugged an external speaker to it and maxed out the volume via the volume knob and set my mixer settings all to 100, then I was able to hear sound from the speaker, but it's too weak to be of any good use. The following is my configuration: $ cat /boot/loader.conf | grep snd_ snd_ich_load="YES" $ kldstat | grep snd_ 3 1 0xc0d30000 6f88 snd_ich.ko $ kldstat | grep sound 4 2 0xc0d37000 4a5ac sound.ko $ cat /var/run/dmesg.boot | grep pcm pcm0: port 0x5000-0x50ff,0x48c0-0x48ff mem 0xb0040800-0xb00409ff,0xb0040400-0xb00404ff irq 20 at device 30.2 on pci0 pcm0: [ITHREAD] pcm0: $ cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2007061600/i386) Installed devices: pcm0: at io 0xb0040800, 0xb0040400 irq 20 bufsz 16384 kld snd_ich [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/1r:1v channels duplex default) $ mixer Mixer vol is currently set to 100:100 Mixer pcm is currently set to 100:100 Mixer speaker is currently set to 100:100 Mixer line is currently set to 100:100 Mixer mic is currently set to 100:100 Mixer cd is currently set to 100:100 Mixer rec is currently set to 100:100 Mixer igain is currently set to 100:100 Mixer ogain is currently set to 100:100 Mixer line1 is currently set to 100:100 Mixer phin is currently set to 100:100 Mixer phout is currently set to 100:100 Recording source: mic I tried audacious, xmms, and mpg123 but I still get the same behaviour. What's causing this? Can anybody give pointers why is this happening? Thanks. -- Rommel M. Martinez