Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:38:17 +0000 From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> To: rjk@wintek.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD8.0 sound on Dell Optiplex 960 Message-ID: <2e027be01002250938g2ce478a0p5ee6715c144ab0c8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4B86B108.8010009@wintek.com> References: <4B86B108.8010009@wintek.com>
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On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Richard Kuhns <rjk@wintek.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm hoping someone can give me some help getting audio working on this > beast. I'm by no means an audiophile; I just like to listen to the > occasional CD and/or online station while I work. None of the jacks on the > back of the tower seem to do anything. > > In addition, when starting a Virtual Machine under VirtualBox, I get a popup > saying: > > "Some audio devices (PCM_in, PCM_mic) could not be opened". Under Details, > the Error ID is HostAudioNotResponding. > > $ cat /dev/sndstat > FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2009061500/i386) > Installed devices: > pcm0: <HDA ATI R6xx HDMI PCM #0 HDMI> (play) default > pcm1: <HDA Analog Devices AD1984A PCM #0 Analog> (play/rec) > pcm2: <HDA Analog Devices AD1984A PCM #1 Analog> (play/rec) > > Per the snd_hda manpage, I'm also attaching the hda-related output from a > verbose boot. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated! > > Thanks, > - Richart Your default device is currently the HDMI output on your graphics card. You probably want to play with sysctl snd.default_unit=1 (or 2) to set it to one of the analog outputs. One should be the front audio, the other one should be the back. Once you've got it sorted out, add to /etc/sysctl.conf to persist it. Cheers Tom
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