Intel HDA (IDT 92HD73E) on a DPS45G audio problems.

[Alastair Hogge]

On Tuesday 23 December 2008 06:57:58 Alexander Motin wrote:
> Alastair Hogge wrote:
> > I have a Intel DPS45G mainboard [1], running 7.1-PRERELEASE on it. When I
> > load the snd_hda.ko the system will pick up the audio hardware as:
> > pcm0: <Intel (Unknown) High Definition Audio Controller> mem
> > 0xc3420000-0xc3423fff irq 22 at device 27.0 on pci0
> > pcm0: [ITHREAD]
> > pcm0: <HDA Codec: Unknown Codec>
> > pcm0: <HDA Driver Revision: 20080420_0052>
> > But no dsp nodes are created in /dev until I try to mplayer/sidplay
> > something. Even so, I still hear nothing coming from my speakers. I've
> > also tried cat some/wave/file > dev/dsp0.0 after the dsp0.0 node is
> > created from running mplayer or sidplay.
> >
> > Is this just a missing device definition somewhere?
> >
> > cat /dev/sndstat:
> > FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2007061600/i386)
> > Installed devices:
> > pcm0: <Intel (Unknown) High Definition Audio Controller> at memory
> > 0xc3420000 irq 22 kld snd_hda [20080420_0052] [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/1r:1v
> > channels duplex default)
>
> Try updated snd_hda driver:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~mav/
> or just take it from CURRENT, and don't forget to read updated man page.
Excellent, that solved it.
Thanks
-Alastair