HDA sound problem on mac pro running -STABLE

[Ariff Abdullah]

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 18:54:37 -0700
George Hartzell <hartzell at alerce.com> wrote:
> Ariff Abdullah writes:
>  > On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:44:38 -0700
>  > George Hartzell <hartzell at alerce.com> wrote:
>  > > 
>  > > I have a mac pro running -STABLE from a couple of days ago.
>  > > 
>  > > If I load the sound and snd_hda modules I can play an mp3 file
>  > > with mpg123, BUT even with the mixer vol and pcm set to 100:100
>  > > it's only just barely audible.
>  > > 
>  > > There's dmesg and sysctl info at:
>  > > 
>  > >   http://shrimp.alerce.com/misc/delicious-dmesg-verbose.txt
>  > >   http://shrimp.alerce.com/misc/delicious-sysctl
>  > > 
>  > > I've tried picking up Ariff's binary modules, and I've tried
>  > > setting
>  > > 
>  > >   hint.pcm.0.softpcmvol=1
>  > > 
>  > > and 
>  > > 
>  > >   hint.pcm.0.config="softpcmvol"
>  > > 
>  > > using kenv and then reloading the driver, with no improvement.
>  > > 
>  > > Anyone know how I can get the volume to behave?
>  > > 
>  > 
>  > Try "gpio0" 1,2,3, .. 7, or any combination of it.
>  > 
>  > My time a bit tight right now, unless you willing to
>  > irc://irc.freenode.net @ #freebsd-azalia.
>  > [...]
> 
> Hmmm.  
> 
>   hint.pcm.0.config="gpio0"
> 
> sends the sound out the internal speakers, even with external
> speakers plugged in.

.. which means this need further automute tweaking, no?

>   
>   hint.pcm.0.config="gpio1"
> 
> sends the sound out to the external speakers!  Yay!
> 
> Thanks for the hint!
> 
>

You can combine both, separated by "," or blank space.


My major concern is with its all zero pci subvendor. Could you show
the output of pciconf -lv ?


--
Ariff Abdullah
FreeBSD

... Recording in stereo is obviously too advanced
    and confusing for us idiot ***** users :P ........
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