Hi Christos, I thought I had tried the speakers on framework 16 and they were working? Maybe I'm misremembering. Are you saying before this patch the speakers weren't working at all, or with worse sound quality? The comments in the linked patch says Since sound quality from pin 23 seems to be better, assign this one as a back
Thanks, Daniel On Sat, Mar 22, 2025, 03:15 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 > >
