--- On Wed, 12/30/09, Richard L. Mace <mac...@telkomsa.net> wrote:
> From: Richard L. Mace <mac...@telkomsa.net> > Subject: snd_hda peculiarities > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Wednesday, December 30, 2009, 8:45 AM > I recently installed FreeBSD 8.0 > (amd64) on my laptop (HP 8510w) and most > things are working. However, a minor annoyance is that I > only get sound if I > manually load snd_hda via: > > # kldload snd_hda > > i.e., after booting. If I place the following in > /boot/loader.conf > > snd_hda_load="YES" > > I get no sound, even though the driver seems to load and > cat /dev/sndstat > gives > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2009061500/amd64) > Installed devices: > pcm0: <HDA Analog Devices AD1981HD PCM #0 Analog> at > cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0 kld > snd_hda [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/1r:1v channels duplex default) > pcm1: <HDA Analog Devices AD1981HD PCM #1 Digital> at > cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0 kld > snd_hda [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/0r:0v channels simplex) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Googling, I found this page: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2009-June/035677.html > > Which reports precisely the behaviour I am experiencing. No > fix or workaround > is suggested. > > Has anyone with similar hardware managed to get this driver > working? Any > workarounds to my problem? My audio hardware is... > > $pciconf -lv > <stuff omitted> > hd...@pci0:0:27:0: class=0x040300 > card=0x30c5103c chip=0x284b8086 > rev=0x03 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Intel > Corporation' > > > > device = 'Intel audio > controller embedded with the 82801H chipset ( > ICH8 chipset ) (82801H)' > > > > > > > class = multimedia > > > > > > subclass = HDA > > And I am using > $ uname -a > FreeBSD belenos 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov > 21 15:02:08 UTC > 2009 r...@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC > amd64 > > Many thanks > -Richard > Try adding sound_load="YES" to the loader.conf HTH _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
