sound on blade 1500?

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 08:17:50PM -0500, Gary Palmer wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 12:56:52AM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 09:43:12PM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 04:11:07PM -0500, Boris Kochergin wrote:
> > > > > How can I check which chip I've got in blade 1500?
> > > > > I couldn't find anything is dmesg
> > > > >   
> > > > Have a look at the output of "pciconf -lv". A device in the multimedia 
> > > > class and audio subclass will be your sound card.
> > > 
> > > cool, thank you
> > > 
> > > none1 at pci0:0:8:0:       class=0x040100 card=0x545110b9 chip=0x545110b9 rev=0x02
> > > hdr=0x00
> > >     vendor     = 'Acer Labs Incorporated (ALi/ULi)'
> > >     device     = 'ALI M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device'
> > >     class      = multimedia
> > >     subclass   = audio
> > > 
> > > I see here
> > > http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2009-04-2009-09.html#FreeBSD/sparc64
> > > 
> > > that snd_t4dwave(4) might be working on sparc64 for this device.
> > 
> > kind of worked:
> > 
> > mech-anton242# dmesg|grep pcm
> > pcm1: <Acer Labs M5451> port 0x900-0x9ff mem 0x100000-0x100fff at device 8.0 on pci0
> > pcm1: <Analog Devices AD1881A AC97 Codec>
> > pcm1: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> > pcm1: [ITHREAD]
> > 
> > mech-anton242# cat /dev/sndstat
> > FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2009061500/sparc64)
> > Installed devices:
> > pcm1: <Acer Labs M5451> at io 0x900 irq 1956  [GIANT] (1p:1v/1r:1v channels duplex default)
> > 
> > and 'ls -al > /dev/dsp' produces some sound,
> > however, playing a cd with cdcontrol gives only
> > perfect silence:
> > 
> > cdcontrol> status
> > Audio status = 17<playing>, current track = 1, current position = 0:25.05
> > No media catalog info available
> > Left volume = 255, right volume = 255
> > cdcontrol>
> > 
> > The volume is max (I think) and no other obvious problems.
> > 
> > How can I debug this further?
> 
> Playing a CD normally uses an audio output from the CD drive to the
> sound system of the motherboard rather than decoding the sound and
> playing it back through the CPU.
> 
> Try the "mixer" command to see if there is separate volume controls
> for a CD input.

HAMOR> mixer
Mixer vol      is currently set to  75:75
Mixer pcm      is currently set to  75:75
Mixer speaker  is currently set to  75:75
Mixer line     is currently set to  75:75
Mixer mic      is currently set to   0:0
Mixer cd       is currently set to  75:75
Mixer rec      is currently set to   0:0
Mixer igain    is currently set to   0:0
Mixer line1    is currently set to  75:75
Mixer phin     is currently set to   0:0
Mixer phout    is currently set to  75:75
Mixer video    is currently set to  75:75
Recording source: mic
HAMOR> mixer -f /dev/mixer1 
Mixer vol      is currently set to  75:75
Mixer pcm      is currently set to  75:75
Mixer speaker  is currently set to  75:75
Mixer line     is currently set to  75:75
Mixer mic      is currently set to   0:0
Mixer cd       is currently set to  75:75
Mixer rec      is currently set to   0:0
Mixer igain    is currently set to   0:0
Mixer line1    is currently set to  75:75
Mixer phin     is currently set to   0:0
Mixer phout    is currently set to  75:75
Mixer video    is currently set to  75:75
Recording source: mic
HAMOR> mixer cd 100
Setting the mixer cd from 75:75 to 100:100.
HAMOR> 

no change. I don't think the issue is in volume, because
it's not just quiet, but completely silent. I suspect
the cd output is just not going anywhere

many thanks


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