From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 9 19:34:20 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93453106568D for ; Wed, 9 Dec 2009 19:34:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@telenix.org) Received: from mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7450D8FC1F for ; Wed, 9 Dec 2009 19:34:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 25817 invoked from network); 9 Dec 2009 19:07:40 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (HELO april.telenix.org) (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 9 Dec 2009 19:07:40 -0000 Message-ID: <4B1FF57A.6030004@telenix.org> Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:07:38 -0500 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090121) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Why no sound? X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:34:20 -0000 I haven't used my audio here for aboout a year now, but seeing as the connection setup I'm using used to work fine with FreeBSD, I think I can assume that I haven't any hardware misconnection problems, and my speaker system (which has spdif input) allows me to select an internal noise generator for speaker testing (balancing) so I know the speakers are OK also. My problem is that I can get no sound out at all. I've set my freebsd-current kernel with sound and snd-hda devices, and my /dev/sndstat prints: FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2009061500/i386) Installed devices: pcm0: at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0 [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/1r:1v channels duplex default) pcm1: at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0 [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/0r:0v channels simplex) pcm2: at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0 [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/0r:0v channels simplex) It's a Asus Striker Extreme motherboard, which has an internal ADI1988B chip, which seems to be recognized fine by dmesg. I'm certain I'm using a good test mp3, and my connection is via spdif. Mixer says all my outputs are on. I can play DVDs via vlc, but still no sound. I can find no documentation whatsoever in FreeBSD man pages as to what devices ought to be active here, but can anyone give me a hint as to what else I might try?