Nice! I’m also on a FW16, and have found you can use a USB bluetooth dongle to get bluetooth speakers working.
My notes are here: https://www.vanagondiesel.info/index.php?title=Frame.Work_16_-_FreeBSD#Bluetooth_Configuration > On Mar 21, 2025, at 12:15 PM, Christos Margiolis <chris...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > For people who own this laptop and have issues with the audio, I've > submitted a patch for review [1] to enable sound from the built-in > speakers. > > You will have also noticed that the 3.5mm headphone jack in this laptop > ...does not exist! However, there is the Audio Expansion Card [2] which > according to people who own it, works just fine. Please note that the > expansion card is a _separate_ sound (USB, uaudio) card so you cannot > get automatic speakers-to-headphones or built-in-mic-to-headset audio > switching with it. That's because, again, the built-in speakers/mic, and > the 3.5mm jack from the expansion card, are different sound cards > altogether. > > Solutions to this that I can see are: > > - Plug an external amplifier to the 3.5mm jack and plug any > headphones/mics/speakers there. Obviously, this is not practical if > you use the laptop outside. > - Switch between devices with mixer(8) on-demand. Note that hot-swapping > (i.e., getting sound from the new device _during_ playback) won't work > unless you use virtual_oss, until I commit the patch [3] to address > this issue. Further explanation on this in mixer(8)'s man page > sections for the -d and -v options. > > Christos > > [1] https://reviews.freebsd.org/D49416 > [2] https://frame.work/pl/en/products/audio-expansion-card > [3] https://reviews.freebsd.org/D49216 >
