snd_hda woes on AMD64-based Acer Aspire laptop (6.2-RELEASE)

[Ariff Abdullah]

On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:03:07 +0000 (UTC)
Andrew <aremo at ngi.it> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:17:28 +0800, Ariff Abdullah
> <ariff at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> > I just upload new sets. Would you give it a try, and see whether
> > playing cd using cdcontrol works (this is just a hit and miss
> > test) ?
> >
> > Paste here your mixer output, or even better, another verbose
> > dmesg.
> 
> 
> Ariff, you are the man! I've now installed today's latest binary
> modules, and I'm happy to report that I can listen to CDs from the
> VGA console too, via cdcontrol. I'm seeing hard disk activity while
> doing this, I guess it's doing realtime audio extraction to a HD
> buffer, isn't it?
> 

.. not really. cdcontrol don't have any digital extraction support
whatsoever. The reason it didn't work previously was because Acer bios
is a bit buggy and need specific patching to recover it.

Since it works now, well, good enough :)

> Also, audio works flawlessly within KDE. In both console and KDE,
> plugging the headphones mutes the laptop's speakers, and unplugging
> them restores the speakers.
> 
> My 'mixer' output:
> 
> Mixer vol      is currently set to  75:75
> 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 cd       is currently set to  75:75
> Mixer rec      is currently set to   0:0
> Recording source: mic
> 
> 
> And my 'dmesg|grep ^pcm':
> 
> pcm0: <ATI SB450 High Definition Audio Controller> mem
> 0xc0000000-0xc0003fff irq 16 at device 20.2 on pci0 pcm0: <HDA
> Codec: Realtek ALC883> pcm0: <HDA Driver Revision: 20070317_0042>
> pcm0: detached
> pcm0: <ATI SB450 High Definition Audio Controller> mem
> 0xc0000000-0xc0003fff irq 16 at device 20.2 on pci0 pcm0: <HDA
> Codec: Realtek ALC883> pcm0: <HDA Driver Revision: 20070320_0043>
> pcm0: detached
> pcm0: <ATI SB450 High Definition Audio Controller> mem
> 0xc0000000-0xc0003fff irq 16 at device 20.2 on pci0 pcm0: <HDA
> Codec: Realtek ALC883> pcm0: <HDA Driver Revision: 20070327_0044>
> 
> 
> Let me know if you need more testing. Thanks again!
> 
> Andrew
> 


--
Ariff Abdullah
FreeBSD

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