On Sun, Sep 27, 2026 at 09:03:05AM +0000, dirk coetzee wrote: > Audio on Dell Inc. XPS 9315used to work on 7.9 (or one of the very early > snapshots) > Kernel does not seem to recognize the audio chipset.
You've posted about this machine and the lack of audio output several times before, and the conclusion of one of the discussions on -misc was that the device is not supported due to lack of required firmware. There have been no obvious changes during the current development cycle, (I.E. since OpenBSD 7.9 was released until now), that would have fixed and then broken support for this device, especially if it is indeed due to the aforementioned missing firmware. Are you sure that you were not testing any separate patches at the time it was working? Or maybe you had changed some BIOS options that made the audio device present itself differently? And when it broke, why didn't you report the problem immediately, to more easily identify any changes that might have caused that breakage? >From a previous email: On Sun, Sep 13, 2026 at 11:30:16AM +0000, dirk coetzee wrote: > Audio worked on my Dell laptop on previous versions of 7.9 snapshots. Audio > stopped working some months back, and since then i have updated to current ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ OK, maybe test one more snapshot or wait a few days to see if it was a bad commit that caused it, but if you knew when it happened and then just discarded that information, that's very counter-productive. > periodically, however sound/audio has never begun working again. I figured > it is getting closer to release time and I should probably report the issue > on 8.0-snapshot. Check that you haven't changed any BIOS setting during this time.
