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Date:      Wed, 30 Dec 2009 07:12:35 -0800 (PST)
From:      Mark <redtick@sbcglobal.net>
To:        "Richard L. Mace" <macerl@telkomsa.net>
Cc:        help help <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: snd_hda peculiarities
Message-ID:  <134214.61244.qm@web81207.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <200912301645.50105.macerl@telkomsa.net>

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--- 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=20
> things are working. However, a minor annoyance is that I
> only get sound if I=20
> manually load snd_hda via:
>=20
> # kldload snd_hda
>=20
> i.e., after booting. If I place the following in
> /boot/loader.conf
>=20
> snd_hda_load=3D"YES"
>=20
> I get no sound, even though the driver seems to load and
> cat /dev/sndstat=20
> 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=20
> 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=20
> snd_hda [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/0r:0v channels simplex)
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------=
-----------------------------------------------
>=20
> Googling, I found this page:=20
>=20
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2009-June/035677.html
>=20
> Which reports precisely the behaviour I am experiencing. No
> fix or workaround=20
> is suggested.
>=20
> Has anyone with similar hardware managed to get this driver
> working? Any=20
> workarounds to my problem? My audio hardware is...
>=20
> $pciconf -lv=20
> <stuff omitted>
> hdac0@pci0:0:27:0:=A0 =A0 =A0 class=3D0x040300
> card=3D0x30c5103c chip=3D0x284b8086=20
> rev=3D0x03 hdr=3D0x00=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=20
> =A0 =A0 vendor=A0 =A0=A0=A0=3D 'Intel
> Corporation'=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=20
> =A0 =A0 device=A0 =A0=A0=A0=3D 'Intel audio
> controller embedded with the 82801H chipset (=20
> ICH8 chipset ) (82801H)'=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0
> =A0=20
> =A0 =A0 class=A0 =A0 =A0 =3D multimedia=A0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0
> =A0=A0=A0
> =A0 =A0 subclass=A0=A0=A0=3D HDA=20
>=20
> And I am using
> $ uname -a
> FreeBSD belenos 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov
> 21 15:02:08 UTC=20
> 2009=A0 =A0=A0=A0root@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC=
=A0
> amd64
>=20
> Many thanks
> -Richard
>=20

Try adding sound_load=3D"YES" to the loader.conf HTH




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