Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:07:38 -0500 From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Why no sound? Message-ID: <4B1FF57A.6030004@telenix.org>
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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: <HDA Analog Devices AD1988B PCM #0 Analog> at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0 [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/1r:1v channels duplex default) pcm1: <HDA Analog Devices AD1988B PCM #1 Analog> at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0 [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/0r:0v channels simplex) pcm2: <HDA Analog Devices AD1988B PCM #2 Digital> 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?
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