Dell Inspiron 1525 Audio

[Leonardo M. Ramé]

Hi, I'm trying to setup the audio card in my Dell Inspiron 1525, but it seems to be an imposible task.

These are the results of some commands I used to check my multimedia configuration:

uname -a:
FreeBSD inspiron.local 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Fri May  1 08:49:13 UTC 2009     root at walker.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

dmesg|grep Codec:
hdac0: HDA Codec #0: Conexant (Unknown)
hdac0: HDA Codec #1: Silicon Image SiI1392 HDMI
hdac0: HDA Codec #2: Sigmatel STAC9228X

pciconf -lv | grep -B 3 multimedia:
hdac0 at pci0:0:27:0:    class=0x040300 card=0x022f1028 chip=0x284b8086 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
    device     = '82801H &SUBSYS_81EC1043&REV_02\3&11583659&0&D8'
    class      = multimedia

sysctl hw.snd dev.pcm:
hw.snd.latency_profile: 1
hw.snd.latency: 5
hw.snd.report_soft_formats: 1
hw.snd.compat_linux_mmap: 0
hw.snd.feeder_buffersize: 16384
hw.snd.feeder_rate_round: 25
hw.snd.feeder_rate_max: 2016000
hw.snd.feeder_rate_min: 1
hw.snd.verbose: 1
hw.snd.maxautovchans: 16
hw.snd.default_unit: 0
hw.snd.version: 2007061600/i386
hw.snd.default_auto: 0
dev.pcm.0.%desc: HDA Silicon Image SiI1392 HDMI PCM #0 Digital
dev.pcm.0.%driver: pcm
dev.pcm.0.%parent: hdac0
dev.pcm.0.play.vchans: 1
dev.pcm.0.play.vchanrate: 48000
dev.pcm.0.play.vchanformat: s16le
dev.pcm.0.buffersize: 16384
dev.pcm.1.%desc: HDA Sigmatel STAC9228X PCM #0 Analog
dev.pcm.1.%driver: pcm
dev.pcm.1.%parent: hdac0
dev.pcm.1.play.vchans: 1
dev.pcm.1.play.vchanrate: 48000
dev.pcm.1.play.vchanformat: s16le
dev.pcm.1.rec.vchans: 1
dev.pcm.1.rec.vchanrate: 48000
dev.pcm.1.rec.vchanformat: s16le
dev.pcm.1.buffersize: 16384
dev.pcm.2.%desc: HDA Sigmatel STAC9228X PCM #1 Analog
dev.pcm.2.%driver: pcm
dev.pcm.2.%parent: hdac0
dev.pcm.2.play.vchans: 1
dev.pcm.2.play.vchanrate: 48000
dev.pcm.2.play.vchanformat: s16le
dev.pcm.2.buffersize: 16384
dev.pcm.3.%desc: HDA Sigmatel STAC9228X PCM #2 Digital
dev.pcm.3.%driver: pcm
dev.pcm.3.%parent: hdac0
dev.pcm.3.play.vchans: 1
dev.pcm.3.play.vchanrate: 48000
dev.pcm.3.play.vchanformat: s16le
dev.pcm.3.buffersize: 16384

mixer:
Mixer vol      is currently set to  75:75
Mixer pcm      is currently set to  82:82

When I try to play a .wav with xmms it "plays" the file, but no sound is heard. The same results when I do a "cat file > /dev/dsp".

Any hint?


 Leonardo M. Ramé
http://leonardorame.blogspot.com