regression in HDA functionality

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 13:25:06 -0700
George Hartzell <hartzell at alerce.com> wrote:

> Gary Jennejohn writes:
>  > On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:28:12 +0300
>  > Alexander Motin <mav at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>  > 
>  > > 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.
> 
> You might discover the sound on one of the other pcm devices, that's
> what happened to me on my mac pro (it's not clear that it should be on
> the other device, but it works...).  
> 
> Here's a message swell.k sent to the list in response to my query
> about how to use different devices.
> 
> g.
> 
> 
> swell.k at gmail.com writes:
>  > George Hartzell <hartzell at alerce.com> writes:
>  > 
>  > [...]
>  > > An even simpler question would be, how can I test the other pcm
>  > > devices?
>  > 
>  > If you look closely at /dev/sndstat output you'll notice there is
>  > `default' keyword on one of the pcm's. To change it you have to
>  > set hw.snd.default_unit accordingly. It's documented in sound(4).
>  > Next time you'll run mpg123 it will use different /dev/dsp.
>  > 

Thanks alot for the help from both of you.  With this clue I was able to
get the headphones working.

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Gary Jennejohn