sound driver - low volume problem

[José de Paula Rodrigues]

On 6/27/05, Jimmy Kimanzi <jimmy at swiftkenya.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have FreeBSD 5.4 installed on a laptop running KDE - I've managed to
> get the audio working but the volume is very low and I'm not able to
> increase it at all .I'm using the driver below  ( snd_ich ) :
> 
> 
> root at jish# cat /dev/sndstat
> FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
> Installed devices:
> pcm0: <SiS 7012> at io 0x1400, 0x1c80 irq 18 bufsz 16384  (1p/1r/4v
> channels duplex default)
> 
> pcm0: <SiS 7012> port 0x1c80-0x1cff,0x1400-0x14ff irq 18 at device 2.7
> on pci0
> pcm0: <Unknown AC97 Codec (id = 0x414c4770)>
> 
> 

I've had this same problem when I had a SiS 754 chipset, and it went
away when I switched to a nForce motherboard. The problem doesn't
exist with an ATI 9100 chipset either.