CMI8788 audio card/chip support

2012-08-26 Thread James Powell

Are any plans being made to start support for these audio cards? Currently I'm 
using one in a system I would like to use with FreeBSD but it has no support 
through the kernel and driver support from OSSv4 lands me with a system that 
either freezes or won't boot properly.

Jim
  
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Re: CMI8788 audio card/chip support

2012-08-26 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 02:01:34 +, James Powell wrote:
> 
> Are any plans being made to start support for these audio cards?
> Currently I'm using one in a system I would like to use with
> FreeBSD but it has no support through the kernel and driver
> support from OSSv4 lands me with a system that either freezes
> or won't boot properly.

Interesting. I've been using a CMI-based sound card with
FreeBSD 4, 5 and 7 already. See "man snd_cmi":

HARDWARE
 The snd_cmi driver supports the following sound cards:

 ·   CMedia CMI8338A
 ·   CMedia CMI8338B
 ·   CMedia CMI8738
 ·   CMedia CMI8738B

It lists older CMI8788 as supported devices. Doesn't it
provide sufficient compatibility?


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Re: CMI8788 audio card/chip support

2012-08-27 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Polytropon wrote on Mon 27.Aug'12 at  4:10:57 +0200 ]

> On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 02:01:34 +, James Powell wrote:
> > 
> > Are any plans being made to start support for these audio cards?
> > Currently I'm using one in a system I would like to use with
> > FreeBSD but it has no support through the kernel and driver
> > support from OSSv4 lands me with a system that either freezes
> > or won't boot properly.
> 
> Interesting. I've been using a CMI-based sound card with
> FreeBSD 4, 5 and 7 already. See "man snd_cmi":
> 
> HARDWARE
>  The snd_cmi driver supports the following sound cards:
> 
>  ·   CMedia CMI8338A
>  ·   CMedia CMI8338B
>  ·   CMedia CMI8738
>  ·   CMedia CMI8738B
> 
> It lists older CMI8788 as supported devices. Doesn't it
> provide sufficient compatibility?

Have you tried loading the generic driver to see if your audio card is picked 
up:

# kldload snd_driver

then try 

# cat /dev/sndstat

which will show more info about it? That's what's recommended in the handbook.


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RE: CMI8788 audio card/chip support

2012-08-29 Thread James Powell




kldload snd_driver only detected my USB Headset and loaded theusb audio driver. 
It did not detect my CMI8788 (ASUS Xonar DX PCIe)and snd_cmi does not support 
it.

cat /dev/sndstat generated this:
FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2009061500/amd64)Installed devices:pcm0: 
 (play/rec) default
Which is my Logitech USB headset, not my PCIe sound card.
The boot generated a message stating "Unsupported Sound Carddetected. Please 
contact li...@support.freebsd.org with soundcard make and model."


> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:24:30 +0100
> From: ja...@kode5.net
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: CMI8788 audio card/chip support
> 
> [ Polytropon wrote on Mon 27.Aug'12 at  4:10:57 +0200 ]
> 
> > On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 02:01:34 +, James Powell wrote:
> > > 
> > > Are any plans being made to start support for these audio cards?
> > > Currently I'm using one in a system I would like to use with
> > > FreeBSD but it has no support through the kernel and driver
> > > support from OSSv4 lands me with a system that either freezes
> > > or won't boot properly.
> > 
> > Interesting. I've been using a CMI-based sound card with
> > FreeBSD 4, 5 and 7 already. See "man snd_cmi":
> > 
> > HARDWARE
> >  The snd_cmi driver supports the following sound cards:
> > 
> >  ·   CMedia CMI8338A
> >  ·   CMedia CMI8338B
> >  ·   CMedia CMI8738
> >  ·   CMedia CMI8738B
> > 
> > It lists older CMI8788 as supported devices. Doesn't it
> > provide sufficient compatibility?
> 
> Have you tried loading the generic driver to see if your audio card is picked 
> up:
> 
>   # kldload snd_driver
> 
> then try 
> 
>   # cat /dev/sndstat
> 
> which will show more info about it? That's what's recommended in the handbook.

  
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RE: CMI8788 audio card/chip support

2012-08-29 Thread James Powell

This also was generated at startup:

none3@pci0:5:4:0:   class=0x040100 card=0x82751043 chip=0x878813f6 rev=0x00 
hdr=0x00vendor = 'C-Media Electronics Inc'device = 'CMI8788 
[Oxygen HD Audio]'class  = multimediasubclass   = audio

> From: james4...@hotmail.com
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 22:50:22 +
> Subject: RE: CMI8788 audio card/chip support
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> kldload snd_driver only detected my USB Headset and loaded theusb audio 
> driver. It did not detect my CMI8788 (ASUS Xonar DX PCIe)and snd_cmi does not 
> support it.
> 
> cat /dev/sndstat generated this:
> FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2009061500/amd64)Installed devices:pcm0: 
>  (play/rec) default
> Which is my Logitech USB headset, not my PCIe sound card.
> The boot generated a message stating "Unsupported Sound Carddetected. Please 
> contact li...@support.freebsd.org with soundcard make and model."
> 
> 
> > Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:24:30 +0100
> > From: ja...@kode5.net
> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: CMI8788 audio card/chip support
> > 
> > [ Polytropon wrote on Mon 27.Aug'12 at  4:10:57 +0200 ]
> > 
> > > On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 02:01:34 +, James Powell wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Are any plans being made to start support for these audio cards?
> > > > Currently I'm using one in a system I would like to use with
> > > > FreeBSD but it has no support through the kernel and driver
> > > > support from OSSv4 lands me with a system that either freezes
> > > > or won't boot properly.
> > > 
> > > Interesting. I've been using a CMI-based sound card with
> > > FreeBSD 4, 5 and 7 already. See "man snd_cmi":
> > > 
> > > HARDWARE
> > >  The snd_cmi driver supports the following sound cards:
> > > 
> > >  ·   CMedia CMI8338A
> > >  ·   CMedia CMI8338B
> > >  ·   CMedia CMI8738
> > >  ·   CMedia CMI8738B
> > > 
> > > It lists older CMI8788 as supported devices. Doesn't it
> > > provide sufficient compatibility?
> > 
> > Have you tried loading the generic driver to see if your audio card is 
> > picked up:
> > 
> > # kldload snd_driver
> > 
> > then try 
> > 
> > # cat /dev/sndstat
> > 
> > which will show more info about it? That's what's recommended in the 
> > handbook.
> 
> 
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Re: CMI8788 audio card/chip support

2012-08-29 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 22:50:22 +, James Powell wrote:
> kldload snd_driver only detected my USB Headset and loaded
> theusb audio driver. It did not detect my CMI8788 (ASUS Xonar
> DX PCIe)and snd_cmi does not support it.
> 
> cat /dev/sndstat generated this:
> FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2009061500/amd64)Installed devices:pcm0: 
>  (play/rec) default
> Which is my Logitech USB headset, not my PCIe sound card.
> The boot generated a message stating "Unsupported Sound Carddetected.
> Please contact li...@support.freebsd.org with soundcard make and model."

That would be a good thing to do.



On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 23:01:31 +, James Powell wrote:
> 
> This also was generated at startup:
> 
> none3@pci0:5:4:0: class=0x040100 card=0x82751043 chip=0x878813f6 rev=0x00 
> hdr=0x00
>vendor = 'C-Media Electronics Inc'
>device = 'CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio]'
>class  = multimedia
>subclass   = audio

That information could be useful for the person who maintains
the cmi sound card driver. Maybe it's possible to take those
IDs (card=0x82751043 chip=0x878813f6) and temporarily "patch"
them into the cmi driver, to try if it then will recognize
the device and handle it (maybe with limited functionality)?

I know a similar approach has been possible to "magically
activate" some incompatible USB hardware...


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