regression in HDA functionality

Gary Jennejohn gary.jennejohn at freenet.de
Thu Oct 2 17:44:14 UTC 2008


On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:28:12 +0300
Alexander Motin <mav at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> >>> I can provide verbose boot output from both kernels, if desired.  Basically, it looks
> >>> like the headphone output gets disabled with the new driver.
> >> Usually such problem means that you have broken BIOS. Verbose output
> >> usually shows where the problem is and writing some device hints usually
> >> allows to fix the problem. Read updated snd_hda man page and if it not
> >> help - send your verbose output to me.
> > 
> > I read the man page but I must admit that it didn't help me any.  I
> > tried setting some device hints but they didn't help either.  I'm
> > obviously failing to understand something.
> > 
> > See dmesg_verbose_amd64 and sndstat under ~gj on freefall.
> 
> I don't see any problem there. It is possible that you may just
> misunderstood what you have got. You have:
> pcm0 - SPDIF/HDMI on video card
> pcm1 - rear 7.1 playback and main record
> pcm2 - front headphones playback and mic record
> pcm3 - SPDIF in/out.
> 
> So, what the problem is? What are you doing, what expecting and what
> getting?
> 

I'm not getting any sound on the headphones, either plugged into the
back or the front.  With the old kernel it just works.

---
Gary Jennejohn


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