Re: [Call for testing] New utility: audio(8)

HI

    I have  a SHuttle 570R6 Mini-PC   with  I7-11700K  CPU and *Realtek 
ALC662*audio chip as /dev/pcm4 that  was running
  a few months  old copy of Current-15.  I did  a  quick git pull and 
buildworld+buildkernel.
  I can say that  audio(8) binary is now available. But realtime setting 
does not  work.


  I  did  set mac_priority_load="YES" in  /boot/loader.conf    but i did 
not help

  got:   " Security policy loaded: MAC/priority (mac_priority)   " in 
/var/run/dmesg.boot log.

    What  are  the  tricks  to  be  allowed    to  utilize  this 
realtime  ?

//Lars

root@sh570r6:~ # audio -f /dev/dsp4

pcm4: <Realtek ALC662 rev3 (Rear Analog)> on hdaa1 (play/rec)
    name                = pcm4
    desc                = Realtek ALC662 rev3 (Rear Analog)
    status              = on hdaa1
    devnode             = dsp4
    from_user           = 0
    unit                = 4
    caps                = INPUT,MMAP,OUTPUT,REALTIME,TRIGGER
    bitperfect          = 0
    autoconv            = 1
    realtime            = 0
    play.format         = s16le:2.0
    play.rate           = 48000
    play.vchans         = 1
    play.min_rate       = 1
    play.max_rate       = 2016000
    play.min_chans      = 2
    play.max_chans      = 2
    play.formats        = s16le,s32le
    rec.rate            = 48000
    rec.format          = s16le:2.0
    rec.vchans          = 1
    rec.min_rate        = 1
    rec.max_rate        = 2016000
    rec.min_chans       = 2
    rec.max_chans       = 2
    rec.formats         = s16le,s32le
root@sh570r6:~ # audio -f /dev/dsp4 autoconv=0 realtime=1
dev.pcm.4.play.vchans: 1 -> 0
dev.pcm.4.rec.vchans: 1 -> 0
dev.pcm.4.bitperfect: 0 -> 1
hw.snd.latency: 2 -> 0
hw.snd.latency_profile: 1 -> 0
kern.timecounter.alloweddeviation: 5 -> 0
pcm4: <Realtek ALC662 rev3 (Rear Analog)> on hdaa1 (play/rec)
    name                = pcm4
    desc                = Realtek ALC662 rev3 (Rear Analog)
    status              = on hdaa1
    devnode             = dsp4
    from_user           = 0
    unit                = 4
    caps                = INPUT,MMAP,OUTPUT,REALTIME,TRIGGER
    bitperfect          = 1
    autoconv            = 0
    realtime            = 0
    play.format         = s16le:2.0
    play.rate           = 48000
    play.vchans         = 0
    play.min_rate       = 44100
    play.max_rate       = 192000
    play.min_chans      = 2
    play.max_chans      = 2
    play.formats        = s16le,s32le
    rec.rate            = 48000
    rec.format          = s16le:2.0
    rec.vchans          = 0
    rec.min_rate        = 44100
    rec.max_rate        = 192000
    rec.min_chans       = 2
    rec.max_chans       = 2
    rec.formats         = s16le,s32le


On 5/5/25 13:40, Christos Margiolis wrote:
> I just committed a new audio(8) utility for viewing and modifying (some)
> sound card settings, in similar fashion and format to mixer(8). The goal
> of this utility is to concertrate audio settings under one user-friendly
> utility, instead of having to (always) deal with sysctls and
> /dev/sndstat. The driver-specific controls remain as sysctl-only though,
> at least for now.
>
> It prints a lot of information, some of it possibly unnecessary. Some of
> the control names or their functionality might be non-obvious. But I
> want to start improving those things once I feedback starts coming in.
> There are already things in my TODO regarding improvements, but they
> will happen gradually.
>
> Please try it out and let me know what can be improved, added, removed.
> The man page explains what each control does and whether it is
> read-only/read-write.
>
> Christos
>
> [1]https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=44e5a01508353cfa52e185a531cfb5a6b39b28f6
>