HDAC sound driver - results : various drivers on Thinkpad Z60m

[Norberto Meijome]

Hi all,
I tested 3 variants of the 'community' HDAC drivers, on my Thinkpad Z60M.

Chipset info (with andrea-rec driver attached, not sure if it's relevant):

(scanpci)

pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x1b function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x2668
 Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio
Controller CardVendor 0x1014 card 0x05b7 (IBM, Card unknown)
  STATUS    0x0010  COMMAND 0x0006
  CLASS     0x04 0x03 0x00  REVISION 0x03
  BIST      0x00  HEADER 0x00  LATENCY 0x00  CACHE 0x08
  BASE0     0x00000000b0000004  addr 0x00000000b0000000  MEM 64BIT
  MAX_LAT   0x00  MIN_GNT 0x00  INT_PIN 0x01  INT_LINE 0x0b
  BYTE_0    0x03  BYTE_1  0x00  BYTE_2  0x00  BYTE_3  0x00


(pciconf)
pcm0 at pci0:27:0: class=0x040300 card=0x05b71014 chip=0x26688086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82801FB/FR/FW/FRW Intel High DefiNition Audio Controller'
    class    = multimedia

Kernel and world stable, updated today:
6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #9: Sun Jul 30 14:06:57 EST 2006

Results : 
I downloaded 3 variants of the drivers today (2006-07-31 01 AM GMT +10)
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Driver package provided by Daniel Eischen (thanks!) :
http://people.freebsd.org/~deischen/hdac.tgz

Dmesg output : 
http://meijome.net/files/freebsd/hdac/daniel_e_hdac_dmesg_200607310112.txt

Sound extremelly low, couldn't manage to make it easily audible. No recording
device.

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Driver package provided by Wesley Morgan (thanks!) :
http://files.chemikals.org/hdac.tgz

Dmesg output : 
http://meijome.net/files/freebsd/hdac/wesley_m_hdac_dmesg_200607310128.txt

Sound extremelly low, couldn't manage to make it easily audible. No recording
device. Lots of info in dmesg.
When setting the volume with 'mixer vol 90:90' (or any values), the following
line gets pushed to dmesg:

        Amp 11: mute(0:0) gain(0:0)

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Driver package provided by Andrea Bittau (thanks!) :
http://darkircop.org/hdac-rec.tgz

Dmesg output : 
http://meijome.net/files/freebsd/hdac/andrea-rec_dmesg_200607302200.txt

Sound at 75% a bit too low, setting to 90% sounded great (100% was pushing
these tiny speakers a bit too much, i thought).
Recording device works too (tested with skype  ). Mixer detects the 'rec'
device, but not as a 'recording source':
$ mixer
Mixer vol      is currently set to  90:90
Mixer rec      is currently set to  90:90
Recording source:

Resuming from suspend is OK most of the times, i haven't been able to pinpoint
any issues, but i have a feeling it *may* be making it more prone to lockups.
Similarly,i've been having some silly issues with if_iwi.ko since using hdac.ko
- absolutely nothing else more to go by, really, but if anyone experiences
anything similar, let us know.

This is the driver I've been using since Andre posted it to -multimedia.
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I think that's all for now :) Let me know if there's anything else I can do to
help.

thanks again to everyone involved!

Beto