Re: Tragic State of FreeBSD Audio/Sound

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On Mon, Jul 20, 2026 at 2:05=E2=80=AFAM vermaden <[email protected]> wrot=
e:

> Hi.
>
> For a start lets define some TERMS. I use UPPERCASE not to shout - but to
> underline a part of the sentence that is needed to be underlined - this i=
s
> plain email - I do not have Bold/Underscore/Italic options - keep that in
> mind - now - to the core of the issue ...
>
> I always considered FreeBSD OSS audio/sound subsystem superior to all
> ALSA/PulseAudio/PipeWire and other dramas from the Linux world ... but no=
t
> anymore.
>
> Somewhere between 14.3-RELEASE and 14.4-RELEASE things begin to get broke=
n
> - I thought that upgrade to latest and greatest 15.1-RELEASE would solve =
my
> issues - as there were LOTS of sound/audio related things.
>

A regression test ("git bisect") would be very helpful in isolating this
regression. I would do one, but my sound is perfect, it needs to be done by
someone with sound problems.

Also only 15 commits to sys/dev/sound exist between the merge base of 14.3
and 14.4:

$ git merge-base release/14.3.0 release/14.4.0
ad1f2e80c8324716e80aa9d2955f42e68cc66308
$ git log ad1f2e80c8324716e80aa9d2955f42e68cc66308..release/14.4.0
sys/dev/sound | grep ^commit | wc -l
      15

so the bug is probably in one of those.

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><br></div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote g=
mail_quote_container"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 20,=
 2026 at 2:05=E2=80=AFAM vermaden &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]=
">[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_qu=
ote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,20=
4);padding-left:1ex">Hi.<br>
<br>
For a start lets define some TERMS. I use UPPERCASE not to shout - but to u=
nderline a part of the sentence that is needed to be underlined - this is p=
lain email - I do not have Bold/Underscore/Italic options - keep that in mi=
nd - now - to the core of the issue ...<br>
<br>
I always considered FreeBSD OSS audio/sound subsystem superior to all ALSA/=
PulseAudio/PipeWire and other dramas from the Linux world ... but not anymo=
re.<br>
<br>
Somewhere between 14.3-RELEASE and 14.4-RELEASE things begin to get broken =
- I thought that upgrade to latest and greatest 15.1-RELEASE would solve my=
 issues - as there were LOTS of sound/audio related things.<br></blockquote=
><div><br></div>A regression test (&quot;git bisect&quot;) would be very he=
lpful in isolating this regression. I would do one, but my sound is perfect=
, it needs to be done by someone with sound problems.</div><div class=3D"gm=
ail_quote gmail_quote_container"><br></div><div class=3D"gmail_quote gmail_=
quote_container">Also only 15 commits to sys/dev/sound exist between the me=
rge base of 14.3 and 14.4:</div><div class=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_conta=
iner"><br></div><div class=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_container">$ git merg=
e-base release/14.3.0 release/14.4.0<br>ad1f2e80c8324716e80aa9d2955f42e68cc=
66308</div><div class=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_container">$ git log ad1f2=
e80c8324716e80aa9d2955f42e68cc66308..release/14.4.0=C2=A0 sys/dev/sound | g=
rep ^commit | wc -l<br>=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 15</div><div class=3D"gmail_quo=
te gmail_quote_container"><br></div><div class=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_c=
ontainer">so the bug is probably in one of those.</div></div>

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