PulseAudio only works with headphones

[Robert Noland]

On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 14:40 -0400, Mike Burns wrote:
> Not too many details for this one, sadly. Totem, etc., only output audio 
> through the line-out (headphone) jack.
> 
> In GNOME, System > Preferences > Sound > Output only lists /dev/dsp0 .

Gnome only knows how to deal with dsp0.  IMHO, that needs to be fixed
upstream, but I have no idea if it is being worked on.

> [mike] ~% cat /dev/sndstat
> FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2007061600/amd64)
> Installed devices:
> pcm0: <HDA Conexant CX20561 (Hermosa) PCM #0 Analog> at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0 
> kld snd_hda [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/1r:1v channels duplex default)
> pcm1: <HDA Conexant CX20561 (Hermosa) PCM #1 Analog> at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0 
> kld snd_hda [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/1r:1v channels duplex)

You have 2 analog codecs.  Try setting hw.snd.default_unit=1 and see if
you get output on different ports.  On my ASUS board I have the
following:

hdac0: HDA Codec #0: Analog Devices AD1989B
pcm0: <HDA Analog Devices AD1989B PCM #0 Analog> at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0
pcm1: <HDA Analog Devices AD1989B PCM #1 Analog> at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0
pcm2: <HDA Analog Devices AD1989B PCM #2 Digital> at cad 0 nid 1 on
hdac0
pcm3: <HDA Analog Devices AD1989B PCM #3 Digital> at cad 0 nid 1 on
hdac0

pcm0 is my rear analog audio codec, pcm1 is my front panel analog
outputs, pcm2 is rear digital and pcm3 (I think) is my front panel
digital.  If you have a graphics card which supports HDMI, (ATI cards at
least) the HDMI codec often shows up as pcm0 which can cause issues if
you don't get everything configured properly.

robert.

> [mike] ~% ps ax | grep pulse
> 1408  ??  Is     0:00.97 /usr/local/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
> 1409  ??  I      0:00.01 /usr/local/libexec/pulse/gconf-helper
> [mike] ~% pulseaudio --version
> I: caps.c: Dropping root privileges.
> W: main.c: High-priority scheduling enabled in configuration but not allowed 
> by policy.
> pulseaudio 0.9.14
> 
> 
> A bit of a background on this system: freshly installed 7.2-RELEASE a week 
> ago, upgraded the OS to -STABLE and the ports to the latest as of Saturday.  
> The computer is a Thinkpad T500.
> 
> [mike] ~% uname -a
> FreeBSD battered.mike-burns.com 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Sat Jun 20 
> 11:04:19 EDT 2009    
>    root at battered.mike-burns.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BATTERED  amd64

-- 
Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
FreeBSD
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