No Sound :(

[dbrons]

I moved to Ubuntu, and got no more problems ...
btw I leave the initial post ...

" Lo people,

I still have no sound since the first install of my PCBSD 9 ...

I tried all recommendations of User HandBooks and FAQ etc. ... but still doens't work.

What I have tried :

dmesg :

hdac0: <Intel 82801G High Definition Audio Controller> mem 0xd02c0000-0xd02c3fff irq 22 at device 27.0 on pci0
hdac0: HDA Codec #0: Analog Devices AD1981HD
pcm0: <HDA Analog Devices AD1981HD PCM #0 Analog> at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0
pcm1: <HDA Analog Devices AD1981HD PCM #1 Digital> at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0

cat /dev/sndstat :

FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2009061500/i386)
Installed devices:
pcm0: <HDA Analog Devices AD1981HD PCM #0 Analog> (play/rec) default
pcm1: <HDA Analog Devices AD1981HD PCM #1 Digital> (play)

cat /boot/loader.conf :

snd_hda_load="YES"

kldload snd_hda :

kldload: can't load snd_hda: File exists

cat /etc/sysctl.conf :

dev.pcm.0.play.vchans=0
dev.pcm.0.rec.vchans=0
#hw.snd.default_auto=1
hw.snd.default_unit=0

When settings default_unit=1 :

Mixer vol is currently set to 100:100
Mixer pcm is currently set to 100:100

When settings default_unit=0 :

Mixer vol is currently set to 100:100
Mixer pcm is currently set to 100:100
Mixer speaker is currently set to 100:100
Mixer line is currently set to 100:100
Mixer mic is currently set to 100:100
Mixer cd is currently set to 100:100
Mixer rec is currently set to 100:100
Mixer igain is currently set to 100:100
Mixer ogain is currently set to 100:100
Mixer line1 is currently set to 100:100
Mixer monitor is currently set to 100:100
Recording source: mic

In Gnome interface, I have an option to confiure the sound (near the horloge), when I try to configure:
Hardware : I found no device
Input : Input volume to Maximum, /dev/dsp0 (selected)
Output : Output volume to Maximum , /dev/dsp0 Stereo (selected), /dev/dsp1 Stereo.

Yesterday, when trying all configuration, I had a sound a low level sound. Like if you set the vol of your radio to 0,01. But the sound was there, and all my mixer was set to 100:100. I lost this conf and I can't hear not anymore.


Thanks for the help "

[sg1efc]

Hello Dbrons:

I am a newbie and not certain if it will help you, but this link helped me get sound:

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread...948#post158948

Also, I noticed in my PCBSD "Sound Preferences" area that my sliders to increase the volume would not work well, seemed to want to move itself decrease the volume level instead of moving to the right to increase the volume like I was trying to. Was not sure if I somehow caused that or not.

[dbrons]

lo sg1efc,


thanks for the answer, but I moved to Ubuntu ... it's a little more easy to config ....

I have no prob with Ubuntu, no issues with the sound, I have problems with Wine to run it on pcbsd, here with ubuntu, no prob ....

Maybe I did a bad install of bsd ...


thanks for the help, I will take a look


bye

[sg1efc]

I understand what you mean Dbrons. I do believe that PCBSD can and will be the ultimate every-day regular computer users best operating system that anyone can get, for at least the next 15-20 years, because as far as I know, there is nothing else out there already or 'in the works' that is as stable and secure as FreeBSD and PCBSD are.

The people behind FreeBSD and PCBSD are all hard at work not only getting the minor bugs fixed, but also continually improving things for us. My thanks as always goes out to everyone involved in these projects.

[dbrons]

oh sure,

I tested 1 week freebsd/pcbsd, and it was real interessting.
I hope one day I will get all my time to make my own configuration, maybe in the next 15 - 20 yers haha ...

but its appear to be a real great OS ... cu soon

[sg1efc]

To re-phrase my last post, I believe that PCBSD already is the best OS anyone can get, just that as the minor bugs are worked out, it will get even better.

[Unix4All]

Hi,

In case your still interested, the following settings "should" correct your audio issues,
assuming you have no hardware problems.

/boot/loader.conf settings;

# Enables parametric equalizer [Bass/Treble] for your audio outputs (optional)
hint.pcm.0.eq=1
hint.pcm.1.eq=1

/etc/sysctl.conf settings;

# Default sound output (if using digital output, change the 0 to 1 )
hw.snd.default_unit=0

# Enables multiplexing (playing sound from multiple sources at the same time)
dev.pcm.0.play.vchans=4
dev.pcm.0.rec.vchans=1
dev.pcm.1.play.vchans=4

/etc/rc.conf settings;

# Enable Sound
snddetect_enable="YES"
mixer_enable="YES"

While these settings can be changed to personal preference (if you understand what your doing), the settings above should work for you with your hardware/sound card. PCBSD will automatically choose and load the right sound driver at boot with these settings ("snd_hda_load="YES" " is not needed in loader.conf) and the parametric equalizer is optional as I mentioned above. Hope this helps.

For further information regarding audio setup in FreeBSD/PCBSD if interested, please refer to the following;

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO...und-setup.html

[sg1efc]

Thank you very much Unix4All for this info.

Does anyone happen to know if there is an application or program in PCBSD that can be used to manually set the audio output different for various applications? For example, I would like to have Skype audio output come out of my headphones, while audio from my browser, Thunderbird and Pidgin alert notifications come out of my regular stereo speakers, all at the same time. Have been looking and researching into this but not found anything yet.

Thanks in advance.

[Unix4All]

Thank you very much Unix4All for this info.

Does anyone happen to know if there is an application or program in PCBSD that can be used to manually set the audio output different for various applications? For example, I would like to have Skype audio output come out of my headphones, while audio from my browser, Thunderbird and Pidgin alert notifications come out of my regular stereo speakers, all at the same time. Have been looking and researching into this but not found anything yet.

Thanks in advance.

Your very welcome.

While I'm not currently aware of any user software that would do what you want, the easiest way to accomplish what you want to do that I'm aware of is to connect a USB headset or second Internal/External-USB sound card and then tell skype (in skype options) to use the second sound device.

[sg1efc]

Your very welcome.

While I'm not currently aware of any user software that would do what you want, the easiest way to accomplish what you want to do that I'm aware of is to connect a USB headset or second Internal/External-USB sound card and then tell skype (in skype options) to use the second sound device.

Thanks Unix4All, this is an option I did not consider.