Audio Drivers

[oldskater]

Hi All

Now I have subsonic working well on my N4F I would love to be able to use it in 'jukebox' mode but for this I need the sound working.
Can anyone offer me any help in getting this working? (is it even possible?) I am running a full install.

[raulfg3]

best if you use Nas4Free as server, and use other device like PC, laptop, tablet like client

[oldskater]

best if you use Nas4Free as server, and use other device like PC, laptop, tablet like client

Yes I may have to do this. But it would be really nice not to have to have 2 PC's running just to play some music.
Although recently I have been thinking that it is just best to leave my NAS4free as purely storage and do everything else from my main PC.
But for now if anyone else can offer any help to get the sound working I would still like to give it a go.
I know at boot up N4F does emit a 'beep' when it is up and running so it must be capable of some kind of audio output.

[fsbruva]

You would need to figure out what audio chipset you have, and verify its compatibility: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/ha ... html#SOUND

Then, you would need to get a copy of the modules you'd need to get the audio working. Not certain if you'd need to compile your own or what.

BTW: The beep you hear at startup is from the motherboard, not from the audio card.

[fsbruva]

Update:
Looks like the majority of sound cards are configured as part of the kernel already (release 9.1.0.1.573)...

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sysctl -a | grep snd
device  snd_cmi
device  snd_csa
device  snd_emu10kx
device  snd_es137x
device  snd_hda
device  snd_ich
device  snd_uaudio
device  snd_via8233
hw.snd.vpc_reset: 0
hw.snd.vpc_0db: 45
hw.snd.vpc_autoreset: 1
hw.snd.latency_profile: 1
hw.snd.latency: 5
hw.snd.report_soft_matrix: 1
hw.snd.report_soft_formats: 1
hw.snd.compat_linux_mmap: 0
hw.snd.feeder_eq_exact_rate: 0
hw.snd.feeder_eq_presets: PEQ:16000,0.2500,62,0.2500:-9,9,1.0:44100,48000,88200,96000,176400,192000
hw.snd.feeder_rate_quality: 1
hw.snd.feeder_rate_round: 25
hw.snd.feeder_rate_max: 2016000
hw.snd.feeder_rate_min: 1
hw.snd.feeder_rate_polyphase_max: 183040
hw.snd.feeder_rate_presets: 100:8:0.85 100:36:0.92 100:164:0.97
hw.snd.vpc_mixer_bypass: 1
hw.snd.verbose: 0
hw.snd.maxautovchans: 16
hw.snd.default_unit: -1
hw.snd.version: 2009061500/amd64
hw.snd.default_auto: -1

Follow some hints here: http://daemon-notes.com/articles/deskto ... figuration

[oldskater]

Thanks for the info, at the moment I am failing at the first hurdle

nas4free:~# kldload snd_driver
kldload: can't load snd_driver: No such file or directory

Any suggestions much appreciated.

[fsbruva]

From this FreeBSD page: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=199060, it looks like snd_driver is not really needed - it just is a helper function. Because the sound card module for your card is likely already included in the kernel, you can just load it directly, "kldload snd_hda" or whatever you determine your driver should be. Then, add it to loader.conf so it survives reboot. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO885 ... setup.html