Re: What Is FreeBSD Missing?

In reply to: Steven Friedrich : "What Is FreeBSD Missing?"
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From: Jan Bramkamp <crest_at_rlwinm.de>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 11:12:00 UTC

On 29.06.24 05:54, Steven Friedrich wrote:

> It's missing the Linux magic of routing audio through the video driver 
> to the HDMI port. Mint, KDE Neon, etc., produce sound out of the HDMI 
> cable, FreeBSD does not.
>
You're confusing multiple things. Mint, KDE, etc. are desktop 
environments that aren't supposed to ship their own custom hardware 
drivers. Instead the kernel is supposed to have OSS audio drivers for 
all audio devices including your GPUs HDMI ports. Unless you GPU driver 
lacks audio support the HDMI port should show up in `cat /dev/sndstat` 
once the drivers are loaded. At that point you can change your (default) 
audio device to select the HDMI audio output. I know for a fact that it 
works with both Intel iGPUs and Nvidia GPUs.