On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 06:19:14PM +0100, Martijn van Duren wrote: > On 02/28/13 09:53, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: > >as Jan said, the sound card is getting the signal; but according to > >the mixerctl output, your card has 3 independent stereo dacs, so > >you could try to kill sndiod and start it as follows: > > > > sudo sndiod -dd -c0:5 > > > >to force it to send the signal to all outputs (hopefully the > >speaker is one of them). Then try to play any audio file. It should > >display: > > > >$ sndiod -dd -c0:5 > >snd0.default: rec=0:1 play=0:5 vol=5931520 dup > >snd0: 48000Hz, s24le4msb, play 0:5, rec 0:1, 2 blocks of 960 frames > >ogg0: 48000Hz, s16le, play 0:1, 10 blocks of 960 frames > >snd0: device started > > > >(note the second "play 0:5" string). As we're at it, crank the > >volume of all dacs to the maximum, just in case the sound is not > >loud enough: > > > >mixerctl inputs.dac-0:1=255 > >mixerctl inputs.dac-2:3=255 > >mixerctl inputs.dac-4:5=255 > > > >If you have headphones or an amp, try all output jacks to figure > >out if at least one is getting the signal. > > > >HTH > > > >-- Alexandre > > > > This helped. Major thanks. > Is there any way to make this permanent?
you could add: sndiod_flags="-c0:5" in your rc.conf.local and possibly add, if necessary, the mixer adjustments in mixerctl.conf > And is there any way to achieve working defaults? this would require to figure out why the sound card doesn't expose the speakers dac. -- Alexandre
