Sound Control

[Ariff Abdullah]

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:12:57 -0400
David Wassman <myfreebsd at cox.net> wrote:
> I cannot get any application that I run to control the volume. I get
> sound but  am not able to adust the volume level. So far the following
> apps have shown  this problem:
> MPlayer
> Xine
> XMMS
> KMix
> Noatun (no sound at all so may be different issue)
> Kaboodle
> 
> I am running FreeBSD 5.4/KDE 3.2.4 with a Sound Blaster Live! sound
> card. My sndstat:
> pcm0: <Creative EMU10K1> at io 0xb800 irq 11 kld snd_emu10k1 (4p/2r/4v
> 
> channels duplex default)
> so the card is recognized. I have adjusted the virtual channels in
> sysctl.conf  and the sndstat shows there are 4v chanels.
> I have both esound and arts. Thought this may be an issue but both are
> 
> dependencies of KDE-Multimedia
> 
> So far I have tried the following:
> 1)	Updating ports and ran portmanager. No effect.
> 2)	Changed KControl->Sound System to use the following in all
> combinations:
> 		Autodetect
> 		Threaded OSS
> 		OSS
> 		Full Duplex
> 		/dev/dsp0.0
> 		/dev/dspW0.0
> 		/dev/dsp0.1
> 		/dev/dspW0.1
> 	No avail.	
> 3)	Tried OSS drivers instead of FreeBSD native. Could not
> initialize the card.  4)	Rebuilt both esound and arts. No effect
> 
> I have googled this yet cannot find any post with similar issue
> (except one in  which the onboard card was not deactivated. I do not
> have an onboard). 
> 
> The only other thing I could think of is to update the whole system in
> 
> buildworld. Not really excited about this option as everything else is
> 
> working great (don't want to mess with it). I use this as my primary
> desktop  so I don't want to be down for that long.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas or a direction to point me in? 
> 

Show me the output of /usr/sbin/mixer , pciconf -lv (only multimedia /
audio part), dmesg | grep pcm, cat /dev/sndstat.


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