Very very weak sound from the speaker

[nawcom]

Perhaps this will help you out with the situation; this is from a 
previous post. I know for sure your audio chip's device/vendor id is 
0x266e8086. This is a fix for someone with FreeBSD-6.2; even though the 
person suggests to grab the compiled modules, he also has the sources 
there. This person had the same issues with volume, and this fixed the 
problem. I hope this helps.

-nawcom

" <email removed>:30:2:    class=0x040100 card=0x099c103c chip=0x266e8086
 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
     vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
     device   = '82801FB/FR/FW/FRW AC '97 Audio Controller'
     class    = multimedia
     subclass = audio

Ok. Lets make it quick and simple. Grab both (I repeat: BOTH) sound.ko
and snd_ich.ko from http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/test/ .

Let me guess. mixer "phout" and "ogain" control both \
headphone and
speaker separately, while mixer "vol" seems useless. Prove me wrong.



--
Ariff Abdullah
FreeBSD
"
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WATANABE Kazuhiro wrote:
> Hello.
>
> At Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:50:50 +0800,
> Rommel Martinez wrote:
>   
>> I'm wondering why is it that no matter what I do, I can't seem to make
>> my laptop emit sound lounder than a whisper.  The laptop is an ECS
>> Elitegroup W330 (Arima W330-UCX) and this is the website of the
>> laptop: http://www.arimacorp.com/ViewProduct.asp?View=145
>>
>> I thought at first there was no sound coming out at all, so what I did was I
>> plugged an external speaker to it and maxed out the volume via the
>> volume knob and set my mixer settings all to 100, then I was able to
>> hear sound from the speaker, but it's too weak to be of any good use.
>>
>> The following is my configuration:
>>
>> $ cat /boot/loader.conf | grep snd_
>> snd_ich_load="YES"
>>
>> $ kldstat | grep snd_
>>  3    1 0xc0d30000 6f88     snd_ich.ko
>>
>> $ kldstat | grep sound
>>  4    2 0xc0d37000 4a5ac    sound.ko
>>
>> $ cat /var/run/dmesg.boot | grep pcm
>> pcm0: <Intel ICH6 (82801FB)> port 0x5000-0x50ff,0x48c0-0x48ff mem
>> 0xb0040800-0xb00409ff,0xb0040400-0xb00404ff irq 20 at device 30.2 on
>> pci0
>> pcm0: [ITHREAD]
>> pcm0: <Avance Logic ALC250 AC97 Codec>
>>
>> $ cat /dev/sndstat
>> FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2007061600/i386)
>> Installed devices:
>> pcm0: <Intel ICH6 (82801FB)> at io 0xb0040800, 0xb0040400 irq 20 bufsz
>> 16384 kld snd_ich [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/1r:1v channels duplex default)
>>
>> $ mixer
>> Mixer vol is currently set to 100:100
>> Mixer pcm is currently set to 100:100
>> Mixer speaker is currently set to 100:100
>> Mixer line is currently set to 100:100
>> Mixer mic is currently set to 100:100
>> Mixer cd is currently set to 100:100
>> Mixer rec is currently set to 100:100
>> Mixer igain is currently set to 100:100
>> Mixer ogain is currently set to 100:100
>> Mixer line1 is currently set to 100:100
>> Mixer phin is currently set to 100:100
>> Mixer phout is currently set to 100:100
>> Recording source: mic
>>
>> I tried audacious, xmms, and mpg123 but I still get
>> the same behaviour.
>>
>> What's causing this? Can anybody give pointers why
>> is this happening?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>     
>
> Can you show me the output of "pciconf -lv | grep -A4 ^pcm" ?
> ---
> WATANABE Kazuhiro (CQG00620 at nifty.ne.jp)
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