FreeBSD 7.2 amd64 no sound

[erim]

I tried to listen audio cd with cdcontrol program but I get no sound at all. My cd-drive is connected to sound card with a audio cable. Playing mp3 file from command line doesn't work either I tried mpg123 program no error messages. Any ideas why sound is not working?

$ uname -a
FreeBSD freebsd 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Fri May  1 07:18:07 UTC 2009     root@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

$ kldstat
Id Refs Address            Size     Name
 1    6 0xffffffff80100000 bd23e0   kernel
 2    1 0xffffffff80cd3000 230e8    snd_hda.ko
 3    2 0xffffffff80cf7000 67470    sound.ko
 4    1 0xffffffff80e22000 9eb1     geom_eli.ko
 5    1 0xffffffff80e2c000 1aa2b    crypto.ko
 6    1 0xffffffff80e47000 a472     zlib.ko

$ cat /dev/sndstat
FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2007061600/amd64)
Installed devices:
pcm0: <HDA Realtek ALC883 PCM #0 Analog> at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0 kld snd_hda [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/1r:1v channels duplex default)
pcm1: <HDA Realtek ALC883 PCM #1 Analog> at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0 kld snd_hda [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/1r:1v channels duplex)
pcm2: <HDA Realtek ALC883 PCM #2 Digital> at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0 kld snd_hda [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/0r:0v channels)

$ sysctl -a | grep hw.snd
hw.snd.latency_profile: 1
hw.snd.latency: 5
hw.snd.report_soft_formats: 1
hw.snd.compat_linux_mmap: 0
hw.snd.feeder_buffersize: 16384
hw.snd.feeder_rate_round: 25
hw.snd.feeder_rate_max: 2016000
hw.snd.feeder_rate_min: 1
hw.snd.verbose: 1
hw.snd.maxautovchans: 16
hw.snd.default_unit: 0
hw.snd.version: 2007061600/amd64
hw.snd.default_auto: 0

$ mixer
Mixer vol      is currently set to 100:100
Mixer pcm      is currently set to  75:75
Mixer speaker  is currently set to  75:75
Mixer line     is currently set to  75:75
Mixer mic      is currently set to   0:0
Mixer mix      is currently set to   0:0
Mixer rec      is currently set to   0:0
Recording source: mic

[richardpl]

Originally Posted by erim

hw.snd.default_unit: 0

Switch this to 1 or 2 and test again.

[erim]

Originally Posted by richardpl

Switch this to 1 or 2 and test again.

Sorry I've been giving wrong information. I can hear music when I play mp3 file from command line. Sound works when hw.snd.default_unit is set to 0
I get no sound when using cdcontrol.

[robbak]

Have you tried increasing the volume on the ones that are low? Perhaps the cd audio is coming in on the 'mix' channel.

Most of us don't other with those audio cables any more. CDs audio is usually played by the computer. You PC will be able to do much better DAC than the chipset inside the CD drive.

[erim]

Originally Posted by robbak

Have you tried increasing the volume on the ones that are low? Perhaps the cd audio is coming in on the 'mix' channel.

Yes I have tried to increase the volume.

$ mixer
Mixer vol      is currently set to 100:100
Mixer pcm      is currently set to  75:75
Mixer speaker  is currently set to  75:75
Mixer line     is currently set to  75:75
Mixer mic      is currently set to   0:0
Mixer mix      is currently set to 100:100
Mixer rec      is currently set to   0:0
Recording source: mic

You were right cd audio is coming from mix channel but It's so quiet. I can barely hear the music playing.

$ cdcontrol volume
Left volume = 255, right volume = 255

Any ideas?

[richardpl]

You can ask that on @multimedia, snd_hda developers....