From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 12 02:30:05 2011 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 25B06106564A for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 02:30:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erich@alogreentechnologies.com) Received: from alogreentechnologies.com (alogreentechnologies.com [67.212.226.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA2FB8FC13 for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 02:30:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from amd620.ovitrap.com ([49.128.188.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by alogreentechnologies.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id p2C2CHH0030902; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 19:12:20 -0700 From: Erich Dollansky Organization: ALO Green Technologies Pte Ltd To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 10:14:17 +0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.2-STABLE; KDE/4.5.4; amd64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201103121014.18051.erich@alogreentechnologies.com> Cc: Brian Waters Subject: Re: Quick question about sound drivers (esp. snd_hda) 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: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 02:30:05 -0000 Hi, On Saturday 12 March 2011 04:29:44 Brian Waters wrote: > It seems to me that under /dev, you can have the following > sound-related device files: > > dspX > dspX.Y > (among others) > this is what you see after your driver is loaded. You might have to tell an application which one to use. > I'm having some trouble getting my sound to work (Dell Inspiron > E1705/Inspiron 9400 with Sigmatel STAC9220 codec). I've read the > manpages for snd and snd_hda (which is the appropriate driver), and > increased the verbosity of the drivers and read the kernel log and > /dev/sndstat, but I still can't quite wrap my head around everything. > I have different hardware but I use the same driver. I did not compile it into the kernel after getting into trouble. Since I load it with: kldload snd_hda it works as expected. If trouble come up, I kick it our and reload it. > What I'm wondering is: what exactly is the meaning of X and Y above? > I'm assuming that X comes from the "association numbers" in the > snd_hda driver, but I could be wrong. Please correct me! > I do not really know but I have had to tell vlc which to use. Erich