snd_hda: ALC888/1200 and mixer empty

[martinko]

Rick C. Petty wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:26:02PM +0200, martinko wrote:
>> Hallo,
>>
>> I've got issues with snd_hda(4) driver.  According to Windows driver 
>> I've got Realtek ALC1200 but FreeBSD says it's ALC888.  mixer(8) doesn't 
>> show any devices and applications complain about it.  However, if I just 
>> cat sth.wav > /dev/dsp I can hear a sound/noise.  The listing follows.. 
> 
> Have you tried the mixer for each pcm device?  e.g.
> 
> mixer -f /dev/pcm4
> 

There are no /dev/pcm* device nodes, but there are mixer nodes:

$ ll /dev/mixer*
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel    0,  88 Jun 15 19:45 /dev/mixer0
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel    0,  89 Jun 15 19:45 /dev/mixer1
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel    0,  90 Jun 15 19:45 /dev/mixer2
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel    0,  91 Jun 15 19:45 /dev/mixer3
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel    0,  92 Jun 15 19:45 /dev/mixer4
$ mixer -f /dev/mixer0
$ 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 mix      is currently set to   0:0
Mixer rec      is currently set to   0:0
Recording source: mic
$ mixer -f /dev/mixer2
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 mix      is currently set to   0:0
Mixer rec      is currently set to   0:0
Mixer monitor  is currently set to  75:75
Recording source:
$ mixer -f /dev/mixer3
$ mixer -f /dev/mixer4
$ mixer -f /dev/mixer

However, digital "devices" have no mixers as you can see.

M.