6.2R && High Definition Audio

[Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri]

On 5/19/07, Matthias Apitz <m.apitz at oclcpica.org> wrote:
> El día Sunday, May 06, 2007 a las 11:20:51AM +0300, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri escribió:
>
> > On 5/6/07, Matthias Apitz <m.apitz at oclcpica.org> wrote:
> > >El día Saturday, May 05, 2007 a las 05:23:32PM +0200, Matthias Apitz
> > >escribió:
> > >
> > >>
> > >> Hello,
> > >>
> > >> I've some time to update the laptop of my wife. Is the chip
> > >>
> > >> none0 at pci0:27:0:        class=0x040300 card=0x107c1734 chip=0x26688086
> > >rev=0x04 hdr=0x00
> > >>     vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
> > >>     device   = '82801FB/FR/FW/FRW Intel High DefiNition Audio Controller'
> > >>
> > >> now supported in 6.2R's snd_hda(4) or do I need some patch. I can't
> > >> see anything about 6.2R in http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/test/
> > >> or should I go to some -STABLE? Thx
> > >>
> > >>       matthias
> > >
> > >I've Google'd around a bit and it seems that I should install
> > >6.2-RELEASE and update the modules from
> > >http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/BINARY_MODULES/sndkld_releng6_i386_lowlatency.tar.gz (2007-Apr-26 14:54:40)
> > >
> > >I'm right? Thx
> > >
> > >        matthias
> >
> > Hello Mathis,
> >
> > Right :)
>
> Hello Abdullah,
>
> In the last days I updated to 6.2R and installed the above driver. It
> worked as described out of the box. Thanks for the work you (and the others)
> have done!
>
> When KDE comes up and opens the /dev/dsp0.0 (I've put /dev/dsp0.0
> as output in the Control Center), the mixer values
> default to
>
> $ mixer
> Mixer vol      is currently set to   0:0
> Mixer pcm      is currently set to 100:100
> Mixer speaker  is currently set to   0:0
> Mixer line     is currently set to   0:0
> Mixer mic      is currently set to   0:0
> Mixer rec      is currently set to   0:0
>
> which does not play anything (for example not the greeting
> dingle-dongle of KDE) while a good value would be
>
> $ mixer
> Mixer vol      is currently set to  24:24
> Mixer pcm      is currently set to  34:34
> Mixer speaker  is currently set to  28:28
>
> So I've inserted a small shell script into ~/.kde/Autostart/mixer.sh
> which sets the above values; don't know if this could be done on
> some other way;
>
> so far so good;
>
> The only thing I can't get to work is 'xmms'. No audio comes out
> and the volume in 'xmms' is set to zero and can't be changed.
> Has someone a working .xmms/config file for snd_hda? Thx
>
>         matthias
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Now HDA is in the RELENG_6, merged few days ago by Ariff, so you'll
get it if you upgrade your kernel as well.
-- 
Regards,

-Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
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