No Sound in Toshiba c650d with PC-BSD 8.2!

[zenny]

Hi:

I have a laptop (toshiba satellite c650d) with PC-BSD v8.2

It detects the sound card (HDA Conexant), but there is no sound no matter what I tweak with kmix.

I tried with everything (except recompiling qt) as mentioned in other threads, but without any success.

Any pointers? Thanks.

[zenny]

After whining for about 12 hours, the sound issue is fixed by making oss as default. I fixed this way as root:

1) cd /usr/ports/sounds/oss
2) make deinstall
2) make config (enabled all options)
3) make install
4) ee /etc/rc.conf and made changes as follows, the commented ones were default:

# Enable sound-support
#snddetect_enable="YES"
snddetect_enable="NO"
#mixer_enable="YES"
mixer_enable="NO"
oss_enable="YES"

5) ee /boot/loader.conf and made the changes as folows (the commented ones were defaults:

# Load sound-support
oss_mod_load="YES" #added extra
#sound_load="YES"
sound_load="NO"
#snd_uaudio_load="YES"
snd_uaudio_load="NO"

6) reboot

7) After reboot, the kmix asked to 'forget' all sound devices and said 'yes'.
and then tested with the command:

osstest

$ osstest
Sound subsystem and version: OSS 4.2 (b 2004/201102281511) (0x00040100)
Platform: FreeBSD/amd64 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #7: Wed Feb 16 13:33:10 PST 2011 root@build8x64.pcbsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/pcbsd-build82/fbsd-source/8.2/sys/PCBSD

*** Scanning sound adapter #-1 ***
/dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm0 (audio engine 0): HD Audio play pcm1
- Performing audio playback test...
<left> OK <right> OK <stereo> OK <measured srate 47987.00 Hz (-0.03%)>
/dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm1 (audio engine 1): HD Audio play pcm2
- Performing audio playback test...
<left> OK <right> OK <stereo> OK <measured srate 47989.00 Hz (-0.02%)>
/dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcmin0 (audio engine 2): HD Audio rec rec1
- Skipping input only device
/dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcmin1 (audio engine 3): HD Audio rec rec2
- Skipping input only device
/dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcmin2 (audio engine 4): HD Audio rec rec3
- Skipping input only device

*** All tests completed OK ***


And it worked like a charm. Maybe it is helpful for others ;-)

[callmeshawn]

just recompiled (as specified), made the same changes to /etc/rc.conf and /boot/loader.conf.

only difference: I chose not to remove any devices when I was prompted, and
I added each pcm device to the OSS v4 Audio Mixer so I could kick the volume up "a few" notches ;).

Thanks for the info.

- shawn

[victorK]

Thanks.

I did it too.
But now I have a new joke.
My speakers play sound always whether headphones are pluged or unpluged.

May anybody help me? :)