OK, I'm lost. My brain can't seem to wrap itself around all of the pieces...
My hardware is pretty standard, just an ASUS "STRIX" motherboard and a sound bar with USB power and stereo jack connected to Line-Out. As near as I can tell, all of the various devices exist and are accessible. Here are the various settings I can find (and thanks to martin@ for helping to identify them). # audiocfg list 0: [*] audio0 @ hdafg0: NVIDIA product 0051 playback: 16, 2ch, 48000Hz record: 16, 2ch, 48000Hz (P-) slinear_le 16/16, 2ch, { 48000 } (P-) slinear_le 16/16, 4ch, { 48000 } (P-) slinear_le 16/16, 6ch, { 48000 } (P-) slinear_le 16/16, 8ch, { 48000 } (PR) slinear_le 16/16, 2ch, 48000-48000Hz dmesg shows [ 11.134747] hdaudio0 at pci1 dev 0 function 1: HD Audio Controller [ 11.134747] hdaudio0: interrupting at msi13 vec 0 [ 11.138653] hdaudio0: HDA ver. 1.0, OSS 4, ISS 4, BSS 0, SDO 4, 64-bit [ 11.146465] hdafg0 at hdaudio0: NVIDIA product 0051 [ 11.154332] hdafg0: DP00 8ch: Digital Out [Jack] [ 11.154332] hdafg0: DP01 8ch: Digital Out [Jack] [ 11.158218] hdafg0: 8ch/0ch 48000Hz PCM16* [ 11.177715] audio0 at hdafg0: playback, capture, full duplex, independent [ 11.181622] audio0: slinear_le:16 2ch 48000Hz, blk 1920 bytes (10ms) for playback [ 11.181622] audio0: slinear_le:16 2ch 48000Hz, blk 1920 bytes (10ms) for recording (There's also a hdaudio1 for the display/monitor, but not expected to work since there are no embedded speakers.) + mixerctl -av outputs.dacsel=DP00,DP01 { DP00 DP01 } Anyone got a clue on how I can make some sounds here? :-) SIDEBAR: Most of my music is in Apple iTunes's mp4 format *.m4a (and a few *.m4p where the protection never got removed). Anyone have a recomendation on what tool I could use to process these mp4's ? +---------------------+--------------------------+----------------------+ | Paul Goyette (.sig) | PGP Key fingerprint: | E-mail addresses: | | (Retired) | 1B11 1849 721C 56C8 F63A | p...@whooppee.com | | Software Developer | 6E2E 05FD 15CE 9F2D 5102 | pgoye...@netbsd.org | | & Network Engineer | | pgoyett...@gmail.com | +---------------------+--------------------------+----------------------+