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It depends on what hardware you got. For example it did not work on the ION 1 platform, but someone reported they got it to work on the ION 2 platform. See: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=21476 http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=28441...

I would not recommend installing on a thumb drive, they're dead slow for a full OS and especially with X.Org running on top of it. Get an SSD, they're so cheap now anyways. Also, buy a 10 meter or so HDMI cable and place the server where the sound it makes wont disturb you (with five HDDs it...

Well, the problem is not with the cards/devices as it works fine in Linux. Also the issue might not be with the kernel, but with how the sound system works(but I'm just guessing here).

I think you're experiencing the same problem as myself and many other nvidia users. HDMI audio just doesn't seem to work unfortunately. I tried the nvidia forums and got this rather sad reply:

Have you configured X to use the "nvidia" driver instead of the "nv" driver? And is VLC built with VDPAU support?

I don't see how a firmware update would be relevant, as it works fine under Linux or Windows. I would think it is something with either the nvidia drivers, or more likely freebsds FreeBSD's sound system and the snd_hda driver specifically. Would be interesting if we could find someone who knows...

I have also tried this on my ION platform, a Zotac 330 D mobo, with FreeBSD 8.2 amd64 and the nVidia 285 driver. The ION platform is quite popular for HTPC boxes, and as I have a great FreeBSD install with ZFS, timemachine etc I was thinking I could combine the HTPC and my FreeBSD server into...