Realtek High Definition Audio on Asus A6Q Laptop

[Armin Pirkovitsch]

Bubbles Bug wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I installed FreeBSD 6.1 Release on my Asus A6Q Laptop.
> 
> There is no built-in driver for Realtek High Definition Audio.
> 
> OSS (Open Sound System) can drive it,
> 
> but there were some problems.
> 
> Gnome's default media player Totem cannot play (device problem).
> mp3blaster cannot find device.
> 
> XMMS can play normally, but "volume control" and  "balance" malfunction.
> /dev/mixer exists.
> My head phone plugged had no sound.
> 
> During the test done by OSS
> I can hear music from my head phone.
> 
> It seems to be a problem abount switching output channel.
> How can I switch it dynamically and easily?

the channel switching sounds like an oss problem to me imho...
however - some developers currently work on a native driver for HDA
which works fine for me.
You can fetch it at http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/HDA/
you also might want to have a look at
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2006-September/thread.html
and you should probably send further questions to the multimedia list

-- 
Armin Pirkovitsch
a.pirko at inode.at