external sound card under FreeBSD 5.4

[Evgeny Solovyov]

> Notes:
>  - I have a Creative USB device myself and it works just fine (in
>    -current).

Hi!

Which one have you?

I applied a patch from http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/ (Thank you Ariff)

and hier is what i have:


# uname -a
FreeBSD tit007m 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #0: Tue Nov 22 12:10:13 
UTC 2005     root at tit007m:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MOBILE04  i386

# dmesg | grep pcm
pcm0: <USB Audio> on uaudio0

# dmesg|grep uaudio
uaudio0: Creative Technology Ltd SB Audigy 2 NX, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2
uaudio0: ignored audio interface with 2 endpoints
uaudio0: ignored audio interface with 2 endpoints
uaudio0: ignored audio interface with 2 endpoints
uaudio0: ignored audio interface with 2 endpoints
uaudio0: ignored audio interface with 2 endpoints
uaudio0: ignored audio interface with 2 endpoints
uaudio0: ignored audio interface with 2 endpoints
uaudio0: ignored audio interface with 2 endpoints
uaudio0: ignored audio interface with 2 endpoints
uaudio0: ignored audio interface with 2 endpoints
uaudio0: ignored audio interface with 2 endpoints
uaudio0: ignored audio interface with 2 endpoints
uaudio0: ignored audio interface with 2 endpoints
uaudio0: ignored audio interface with 2 endpoints
uaudio0: ignored audio interface with 2 endpoints
uaudio0: audio rev 1.00
pcm0: <USB Audio> on uaudio0

# cat /dev/sndstat
FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
Installed devices:
pcm0: <USB Audio> at ? kld snd_uaudio (0p/1r/0v channels default)
         mode 1:(input) 2ch, 16/16bit, pcm, 32000Hz
         mode 2:(input) 2ch, 24/24bit, pcm, 32000Hz
         mode 3:(input) 2ch, 16/16bit, pcm, 44100Hz
         mode 4:(input) 2ch, 24/24bit, pcm, 44100Hz
         mode 5:(input) 2ch, 16/16bit, pcm, 48000Hz
         mode 6:(input) 2ch, 24/24bit, pcm, 48000Hz
         mode 7:(input) 2ch, 16/16bit, pcm, 96000Hz
         mode 8:(input) 2ch, 24/24bit, pcm, 96000Hz

# sysctl hw.snd
hw.snd.report_soft_formats: 1
hw.snd.targetirqrate: 32
hw.snd.feeder_rate_buffersize: 8192
hw.snd.feeder_rate_scaling: 5
hw.snd.feeder_rate_ratemax: 1102500
hw.snd.feeder_rate_ratemin: 4000
hw.snd.verbose: 1
hw.snd.slave_enabled: 1
hw.snd.maxautovchans: 0
hw.snd.unit: 0
hw.snd.pcm0.buffersize: 16384

#  usbdevs -v
..

Controller /dev/usb2:
addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x0000), 
Intel(0x0000), rev 1.00
  port 1 addr 2: full speed, self powered, config 1, SB Audigy 2 
NX(0x3020), Creative Technology Ltd(0x041e), rev 1.00
  port 2 powered
..
# kldstat
Id Refs Address    Size     Name
  1   14 0xc0400000 52e9a8   kernel
  2    1 0xc092f000 4228     vesa.ko
  3    2 0xc0934000 196c8    linux.ko
  4    1 0xc0953000 3be080   nvidia.ko
  5    1 0xc0d12000 98d8     snd_uaudio.ko
  6    2 0xc0d1c000 23790    sound.ko
  7    1 0xc0d40000 590d0    acpi.ko


And no sound.  :)

Have i a chance?

Best regards

Evgeny