Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:25:35 +0200 From: "Richard L. Mace" <macerl@telkomsa.net> To: Mark <redtick@sbcglobal.net> Cc: help help <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: snd_hda peculiarities Message-ID: <200912301725.35954.macerl@telkomsa.net> In-Reply-To: <134214.61244.qm@web81207.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <134214.61244.qm@web81207.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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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
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