Gateway MX3215 laptop running fbsd 6.1 current, no sound.

[Mark A-J. Raught]

Matthew_Northcott at Dell.com wrote:
>  have been hacking at this freebsd install for over 3 weeks now. Got
> everything working perfectly but sound. Been playing with it for awhile
> and have tried all of the config options i could imagine. Now gateway
> doesnt shed to much light on the soundcard/chipset thats in this system.
>
>
> it does tell me these two bits of info. 
> Chipset: Via VN800 
> Audio: AC '97 2.3 Compliant Audio 
> Built-in Speakers 
>
> So i tried native drivers, but no go. So i then downloaded and got OSS
> installed ( latest version from the website) it does see my sound card
> as VIA VT8233/8235/8237. But when I go to play sound eaither ussing
> osstest or an application like xmms the system thinks it's playing to
> the sound out, but i get no sound from the speakers. Adjusted volume
> using ossxmix, but to no avail. Anyone ever ran into anyhting like this
> or is using this same system? Any help would be much appreciated.
>  
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I had a similar problem a while ago with (I think) a VIA driver. I'm not 
sure what laptop it was on, but the driver would see it and it looked 
like it was working but there was no sound. It drove me crazy. I found 
that if I muted or was it unmuted one of the sound devices possibly line 
in and it would work. I just created a script to do it from the command 
line and all was well. It wasn't the actual audio device that I muted or 
unmuted, it was just one of the others and as soon as that was done the 
audio worked normally. I can look into more if you need specifics, but 
it may be until weekend when I can get on the different laptops and look 
around. It may have even been this one (intel audio) but I have linux on 
it currently.

-mark