Very very weak sound from the speaker

[WATANABE Kazuhiro]

Hello.

At Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:50:50 +0800,
Rommel Martinez wrote:
> I'm wondering why is it that no matter what I do, I can't seem to make
> my laptop emit sound lounder than a whisper.  The laptop is an ECS
> Elitegroup W330 (Arima W330-UCX) and this is the website of the
> laptop: http://www.arimacorp.com/ViewProduct.asp?View=145
> 
> I thought at first there was no sound coming out at all, so what I did was I
> plugged an external speaker to it and maxed out the volume via the
> volume knob and set my mixer settings all to 100, then I was able to
> hear sound from the speaker, but it's too weak to be of any good use.
> 
> The following is my configuration:
> 
> $ cat /boot/loader.conf | grep snd_
> snd_ich_load="YES"
> 
> $ kldstat | grep snd_
>  3    1 0xc0d30000 6f88     snd_ich.ko
> 
> $ kldstat | grep sound
>  4    2 0xc0d37000 4a5ac    sound.ko
> 
> $ cat /var/run/dmesg.boot | grep pcm
> pcm0: <Intel ICH6 (82801FB)> port 0x5000-0x50ff,0x48c0-0x48ff mem
> 0xb0040800-0xb00409ff,0xb0040400-0xb00404ff irq 20 at device 30.2 on
> pci0
> pcm0: [ITHREAD]
> pcm0: <Avance Logic ALC250 AC97 Codec>
> 
> $ cat /dev/sndstat
> FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2007061600/i386)
> Installed devices:
> pcm0: <Intel ICH6 (82801FB)> at io 0xb0040800, 0xb0040400 irq 20 bufsz
> 16384 kld snd_ich [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/1r:1v channels duplex default)
> 
> $ mixer
> Mixer vol is currently set to 100:100
> Mixer pcm is currently set to 100:100
> Mixer speaker is currently set to 100:100
> Mixer line is currently set to 100:100
> Mixer mic is currently set to 100:100
> Mixer cd is currently set to 100:100
> Mixer rec is currently set to 100:100
> Mixer igain is currently set to 100:100
> Mixer ogain is currently set to 100:100
> Mixer line1 is currently set to 100:100
> Mixer phin is currently set to 100:100
> Mixer phout is currently set to 100:100
> Recording source: mic
> 
> I tried audacious, xmms, and mpg123 but I still get
> the same behaviour.
> 
> What's causing this? Can anybody give pointers why
> is this happening?
> 
> Thanks.

Can you show me the output of "pciconf -lv | grep -A4 ^pcm" ?
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WATANABE Kazuhiro (CQG00620 at nifty.ne.jp)