Re: OpenBSD 7.9 Intel HD sound, azalia

On Sat, Jul 04, 2026 at 11:44:26AM +0800, badli al rashid wrote:
> hi biander,
> 
> add my user to _sndio and _sndiop group and restarted the sndio service but
> still not detected. Reboot also not detected.
> 
> regards,
> badli
> 

Hello, Badli Al Rashid.

I think that advice I gave it to you last time was wrong. That fixed
my Firefox not the entire audio system. Other audio programs like
aucat(1) worked perfectly.

     Authentication
          For privacy reasons only one user may have connections to
          sndiod(8) at a given time.  Users are identified by their
          session cookie, which is automatically generated by audio
          or MIDI programs upon the first connection to the server.
          The cookie is stored in $HOME/.sndio/cookie and contains
          128 bits of raw random data.
     
The sndio(7) manual says only one user may have a connection to the
sndio daemon. Check another user's connecting to the daemon, and the
cookie of your user. The cookie will be generated automatically
therefore you can delete it if you want to try.

If that's not working either, You have to select the audio device
manually using sndioctl(1). My result looks like below.

     $ sndioctl -v 
     input[0].level=0.486
     input[1].level=0.486
     input[0].mute=0
     input[1].mute=0
     output[0].level=0.494
     output[1].level=0.494
     output[0].mute=0
     output[1].mute=0
     server.mode=play,rec
     server.device=0(azalia1)
     app/firefox.level=1.000

     $ sndioctl -i server.device
     server.device=0(azalia1),1(Shure MV88+),2,3

I hope your issue gets resolved soon.

Best regards,
Biarder

> 
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2026, 03:38 Biarder <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > > dmesg sound is detected.
> > >  i try to configure it but there still no sound.
> > >
> > > The kernel is build with GENERIC.MP config.
> > >
> > > I am not sure if this is a bug but it works on ubuntu 20 live cd.
> >
> > Hello.
> >
> > Are you using sndio? If so, check your daemon is running, add a user
> > to the '_sndio' group.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Biarder.
> >