Re: 6.0-REL && ICH6 && poor volume of sound

Michael Vince <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
There has been a massive update to sound in 6 stable, I recommend you 
try it out,
There is a post to 'stable' announcing it. "HEADS-UP: massive 
soundsystem update in 6-stable"

Mike

[email protected] wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm installing 6.0-REL on a brand new laptop Fujitsu-Siemens
>Lifebook E 8020 and (the good news first) it went well and
>without any problem the X.org runs out of the box in 1400x1050,
>for example.
>
>The only problem until now is the poor volume of the sound. The
>KDE uses the sound system but the volume is very low. It mus have
>something todo with the sound.ko or snd_ich.ko because before
>loading the drivers the volume of the  normal keyboard bell is very
>high. And then, after loading the drivers, is very poor too.
>
>The details are:
>
>$ cat /dev/sndstat
>FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
>Installed devices:
>pcm0: <Intel ICH6 (82801FB)> at io 0xc8000800, 0xc8000400 irq 17 bufsz 16384 kld snd_ich (1p/1r/0v channels duplex default)
>$ mixer
>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   0:0
>Mixer cd       is currently set to  75:75
>Mixer rec      is currently set to   0:0
>Mixer ogain    is currently set to  50:50
>Mixer line1    is currently set to  75:75
>Mixer phin     is currently set to   0:0
>Mixer phout    is currently set to 100:100
>Recording source: mic
>
>$ tail /var/log/messages
>	...
>Dec 30 14:01:45 rebelion kernel: pcm0: <Intel ICH6 (82801FB)> port 0x1800-0x18ff,0x1480-0x14bf mem 0xc8000800-0xc80009ff,0xc8000400-0xc80004ff irq 17 at device 30.2 on pci0
>Dec 30 14:01:45 rebelion kernel: pcm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>Dec 30 14:01:45 rebelion kernel: pcm0: <Unknown AC97 Codec (id = 0x414c4770)>
>
>$ kldstat
>Id Refs Address    Size     Name
> 1    9 0xc0400000 63070c   kernel
> 2   16 0xc0a31000 568dc    acpi.ko
> 3    1 0xc2831000 15000    linux.ko
> 4    1 0xc2e8b000 5000     snd_ich.ko
> 5    1 0xc2e90000 18000    sound.ko
>
>What can I do? Thx in advance
>
>	matthias
>
>  
>

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