Audio CD issue -- most everything but noise ASUS M4A89TD mobo

[Gary Aitken]

On 05/31/12 05:54, Polytropon wrote:
> On Thu, 31 May 2012 00:38:46 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote:
>> The cd mounts a regular file system ok and audio generally works
>> ok -- playing from a file works.
> 
> You're sure it's a normal audio CD? How actually is one supposed
> to mount audio CDs? They're _audio_ CD format, no ISO-9660 file
> system on them...?

By "normal" I mean it plays fine in a regular sound system, and on a windoze box via media player with the same CD player and the direct audio wire not hooked up.

>> Successive status requests look like it is progressing through
>> the CD just fine.
> 
> Does the CD drive maybe have an earphone connector so you
> can test if anything is output? I know most modern drives
> don't come with this connector anymore.

I'm using the earphones, and they work with mp3 files from disk.
Who said anything about "modern"?  
I thought all CDs came from old junk machines. :-)
Novel idea.  This cd has one, and I get audio from it.
So cdcontrol seems to be controlling operation just fine,
there's just no audio getting into the guts of the os.

>> The CD does not have any direct to mobo audio wire, only the ATA cable.
>> I'm assuming fbsd gets the audio down the ata cable, correct?
> 
> As far as I remember... NO.
> 
> I've been using FreeBSD with working CD audio in the past,
> but I always had the wire installed (in many different
> constellations, such as with using SCSI drives, using an
> individual sound card, or having multiple line-ins on
> the main board). _This_ method did always work.

Ugh.  
Mobo:
  ASUS M4A89TD Pro/USB3
doesn't even have a place to plug in the separate digital audio input cable.
At least not that I can identify.

Is anyone using this mobo with a CD for audio input?

> Just to make sure, check your mixer settings. Yes I know,
> it's stupid to emphasize it, but _I_ have been fallen
> into that trap already. :-)
> 
> 	Mixer vol      is currently set to  75:75
> 	Mixer pcm      is currently set to  50:50
> 	Mixer cd       is currently set to   0:0
> 
> In _such_ a situation, missing sound is nothing special.

How about missing cd?????

Mixer vol      is currently set to 100:100
Mixer pcm      is currently set to  75:75
Mixer line     is currently set to  75:75
Mixer mic      is currently set to   0:0
Mixer mix      is currently set to   0:0
Mixer rec      is currently set to  75:75
Mixer igain    is currently set to 100:100
Mixer ogain    is currently set to  50:50
Recording source: mic

I don't see any "cd".  Where does that come from?  There is a /dev/cd0:

ls -l /dev/cd0
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 115 May 30 09:29 /dev/cd0

If I try to add "cd" to the list of devices, it claims it's not valid:

#mixer +rec cd
mixer: unknown recording device: cd
usage: mixer [-f device] [-s | -S] [dev [+|-][voll[:[+|-]volr]] ...
       mixer [-f device] [-s | -S] recsrc ...
       mixer [-f device] [-s | -S] {^|+|-|=}rec rdev ...
 devices: vol, pcm, line, mic, mix, rec, igain, ogain
 rec devices: line, mic, mix

What is the source for the "mix" device?
I tried upping it to 50% but still no sound.

"man snd" shows a boatload of possible bridge drivers, but kldstat only shows a few loaded:

%kldstat -v | grep "sound\|snd\|pcm"
                252 uaudio/ua_pcm
                250 sound
                249 pci/snd_hda
                248 hdac/snd_hda_pcm
                247 pci/snd_via8233
                246 pci/snd_ich
                245 pci/snd_es137x

This mobo has an ALC892 codec.
dmesg shows:

hdac0: <ATI (Unknown) High Definition Audio Controller> mem 0xfe9bc000-0xfe9bffff irq 25 at device 0.1 on pci5

hdac1: <ATI SB600 High Definition Audio Controller> mem 0xfe6f8000-0xfe6fbfff irq 16 at device 20.2 on pci0

I also see the following at the end of dmesg:

(cd0:ata2:0:0:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 40 0
(cd0:ata2:0:0:0): CAM status: SCSI Status Error
(cd0:ata2:0:0:0): SCSI status: Check Condition
(cd0:ata2:0:0:0): SCSI sense: ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:64,11 (Reserved ASC/ASCQ pair)
(cd0:ata2:0:0:0): cddone: got error 0x16 back
(cd0:ata2:0:0:0): MODE_SENSE(6) failed, increasing minimum CDB size to 10 bytes
(cd0:ata2:0:0:0): PLAY AUDIO MSF. CDB: 47 0 0 0 0 0 43 36 0 0
(cd0:ata2:0:0:0): CAM status: SCSI Status Error
(cd0:ata2:0:0:0): SCSI status: Check Condition
(cd0:ata2:0:0:0): SCSI sense: ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:21,0 (Logical block address out of range)
(cd0:ata2:0:0:0): PLAY AUDIO MSF. CDB: 47 0 0 0 2 0 43 36 0 0
(cd0:ata2:0:0:0): CAM status: SCSI Status Error
(cd0:ata2:0:0:0): SCSI status: Check Condition
(cd0:ata2:0:0:0): SCSI sense: ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:21,0 (Logical block address out of range)

Those last four are repeated four five times total, and then:

(cd0:ata2:0:0:0): READ SUB-CHANNEL. CDB: 42 2 40 2 0 0 0 0 18 0
(cd0:ata2:0:0:0): CAM status: SCSI Status Error
(cd0:ata2:0:0:0): SCSI status: Check Condition
(cd0:ata2:0:0:0): SCSI sense: ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:2c,0 (Command sequence error)

repeated a number of times.  It's not clear to me when they showed up, as pausing, resuming, ejecting, loading, and playing a cd using cdcontrol doesn't seem to be adding any entries.

I tried doing

kldload snd_atiixp

but it didn't seem to make a difference.  
I also don't have a clue whether or not that is an appropriate bridge driver.
But maybe one needs to do something more to get it to actually try to use that bridge driver?

> The FreeBSD ATAPI subsystem has been done many changes to
> in the recent years. Maybe CD-Audio functionality has been
> lost during that way? It's not the first time it's being
> discussed on list...

hopefully someone can shed some light with the above additional details...