Re: FreeBSD 6.0 and Sony Ericsson GC83

On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:25:10 -0500
"Mark A-J. Raught" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 17:32 -0600, Jeff Cross wrote:
> > I have recently started using FreeBSD (5.4 briefly then on to 6.0)
> > and  love it!  For some reason I enjoy messing around with FreeBSD
> > a lot more  than I did Linux.  My FreeBSD install is currently on
> > a Gateway 7326GZ  (Intel) Laptop. 
> > 
> > So far, everything is working as it should except I get no volume
> > when  playing audio files and I really don't know where to start
> > with my 
> <snip>
> 
> This may help with your audio... I had the same problem and it drove
> me nuts for several days. I have a gateway 7325GZ and had to change
> ac97.c and ac97.h. I don't have my fbsd drive in now (in debian
> right now) but I googled and belive it was
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2004-May/006684.html
> that got it working for me.
> In linux (debian atleast) I have a script on starting X that mutes
> the external amp to get sound working (amixer -c 0 sset 'External
> Amplifier',0 mute)
> 
> maybe one of those will help get you pointed in the right direction.
> 
>  Just remember if you diff the ac97.h and ac97.c, when you cvsup it
>  will
> replace those files (which I leave alone so I can test newer
> versions before rediffing)
> 
That was a bogus fix. A better solution has been commited to both
-current and RELENG_6. All I need is the output of pciconf -lv from
both of you. This is a known issues in several Gateway and Sony
laptops.

http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/

But first, pciconf -lv .


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Ariff Abdullah
FreeBSD

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