Audio/Headphone using FreeBSD 12-release in Dell Inspiron 17-7573 (i7573-7994GRY-PUS)

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manoeldesouza

Hello everyone,

I've been going back and forth on my attempts to depart from Linux in favor for FreeBSD in my new laptop. I have, however, been struggling to have audio over the headphone jack at the left. The audio card in this box is a Realtek ALC3254, and works alike a charm in Manjaro.

I've tried:
# sysctl hw.snd.default_unit=1
and:
# sysctl hw.snd.default_auto=1
and also, multiple attempts with different combinations using devices.hints but no success. Best result is a little chirp by the time it attempts to play any mp3.
Using
# sysctl hw.snd.default_unit=0 works fine.

Looks like everything else works fine in this laptop. I`m back in Manjaro, but with hopes to stick for good in FreeBSD. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.
 
You need to carefully read the man page

snd_hda

www.freebsd.org www.freebsd.org

If you not understand what is described there - perhaps return to Manjaro is a good choice for you.
Sound (HDA) subsystem is not very user friendly in FreeBSD. This is what we all have here.
In Linux world snd_hda subsystem contain a lot more improvements and patches for dozen of variations hda chips (especially from realtek). You can see that by the commentaries in the driver sources for hda sound or a commit history in a repository.
BSD sources do not contain all of them, and as a result - even you take a success with the play on hda pins (via devices.hints), you can stay faced with an improperly setup on a low level hardware initalizations on a driver-side, affected as wrong microphone / headphone setup (wrong/missed i/o port preparations).
What I am talking about you can see on an example of this bug:

219350 – [snd_hda] ALC256: no sound out off headphones jack

bugs.freebsd.org bugs.freebsd.org
Enthusiast found a suggestion for ALC255 chip in a may of 2018, and maintainer take the patch into the system source in january on 2019.

manoeldesouza said:
multiple attempts with different combinations using devices.hints but no success
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What exactly you tried? What you see on system console when enter
Code: 
sysctl dev.hdac.0.pindump=1
?
 
I tried multiple combinations in devices.hints:
Code: 
hint.hdaa.0.nid33.config="as=2 seq=15 device=Headphones conn=Jack ctype=1/8 loc=Front color=Black misc=1"
hint.hdaa.1.nid33.config="as=2 seq=15 device=Headphones conn=Jack ctype=1/8 loc=Front color=Black misc=1"
hint.hdaa.0.nid33.config="as=1 seq=15 device=Headphones conn=Jack ctype=1/8 loc=Front color=Black misc=1"
etc. None seem to work. Follows the output of some commands from the original setup

Code: 
sysctl dev.hdaa
sysctl dev.pcm
cat /dev/sndstat
mixer

Code: 
# sysctl dev.hdac.0.pindump=1
dev.hdac.0.pindump: 0 -> 0
 

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This is a common problem. FreeBSD associates audio pins based on location. The internal speakers are usually grouped in one association while the left jacks are placed in a second, different association. By default, FreeBSD sets only one association as the default.

In /boot/device.hints, you can change the association (as=) of the left headphone nids to match the as of the internal speakers. In the same line give the left headphone a seq=15 so it will jack sense and mute the internal speakers.

See this example in Thread 66052
 
manoeldesouza said:
I tried multiple combinations in devices.hints:
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I think all you need is only next two lines in devices.hints
Code: 
hint.hdaa.0.nid33.config="as=1 seq=15"
hint.hdaa.0.nid18.config="as=1 seq=0"
This will join internal speakers (out, nid20) and headphone (out, nid33) with internal mic (in, nid18) in one single device with jack-plug auto detection (for headphones only).

If after that you get noisily/distorted sound from your headphones - snd_hda driver needs a patch for setup i/o coefficients on init stage (like for my Dell Inspirion 3147 with ALC255).
 
A.Petrov said:
I think all you need is only next two lines in devices.hints
Code: 
hint.hdaa.0.nid33.config="as=1 seq=15"
hint.hdaa.0.nid18.config="as=1 seq=0"
This will join internal speakers (out, nid20) and headphone (out, nid33) with internal mic (in, nid18) in one single device with jack-plug auto detection (for headphones only).

If after that you get noisily/distorted sound from your headphones - snd_hda driver needs a patch for setup i/o coefficients on init stage (like for my Dell Inspirion 3147 with ALC255).
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This, I've an Inspiron 5567 with ALC256 and I also had to apply a small patch to make the creaking noises stop. Thankfully it has been merged upstream, so I hope it will land in some dot release further down the road.
 
I have a problem years and I didn't solved:
dmesg | grep hda

Code: 
hdac0: <ATI RV770 HDA Controller> mem 0xd0630000-0xd0633fff at device 0.1 on pci1
hdac1: <Intel Ibex Peak HDA Controller> mem 0xd0700000-0xd0703fff at device 27.0 on pci0
hdacc0: <ATI R6xx HDA CODEC> at cad 0 on hdac0
hdaa0: <ATI R6xx Audio Function Group> at nid 1 on hdacc0
pcm0: <ATI R6xx (HDMI)> at nid 3 on hdaa0
hdacc1: <Cirrus Logic CS4206 HDA CODEC> at cad 0 on hdac1
hdaa1: <Cirrus Logic CS4206 Audio Function Group> at nid 1 on hdacc1
hdaa1: hdaa_audio_as_parse: Pin 13 has wrong direction for association 1! Disabling association.
pcm1: <Cirrus Logic CS4206 (Rear Analog Line-in)> at nid 12 on hdaa1
pcm2: <Cirrus Logic CS4206 (Rear Digital)> at nid 16 and 15 on hdaa1
hdac0: <ATI RV770 HDA Controller> mem 0xd0630000-0xd0633fff at device 0.1 on pci1
hdac1: <Intel Ibex Peak HDA Controller> mem 0xd0700000-0xd0703fff at device 27.0 on pci0
hdacc0: <ATI R6xx HDA CODEC> at cad 0 on hdac0
hdaa0: <ATI R6xx Audio Function Group> at nid 1 on hdacc0
pcm0: <ATI R6xx (HDMI)> at nid 3 on hdaa0
hdacc1: <Cirrus Logic CS4206 HDA CODEC> at cad 0 on hdac1
hdaa1: <Cirrus Logic CS4206 Audio Function Group> at nid 1 on hdacc1
pcm1: <Cirrus Logic CS4206 (Analog 4ch+HP/2.0)> at nid 10,11,9 and 13 on hdaa1
pcm2: <Cirrus Logic CS4206 (Rear Analog Line-in)> at nid 12 on hdaa1
pcm3: <Cirrus Logic CS4206 (Rear Digital)> at nid 16 and 15 on hdaa1
hdaa1: Dumping AFG pins:
hdaa1: nid   0x    as seq device       conn  jack    loc        color   misc
hdaa1:  9 012b404f 4  15 Headphones    Jack  Combo   Rear       Green   0
hdaa1:     Caps:    OUT HP           Sense: 0x80000000 (connected)
hdaa1: 10 90100142 4  2  Speaker       Fixed Unknown Internal   Unknown 1
hdaa1:     Caps:    OUT              Sense: 0x00000000 (disconnected)
hdaa1: 11 90100144 4  4  Speaker       Fixed Unknown Internal   Unknown 1
hdaa1:     Caps:    OUT          
hdaa1: 12 018b3020 2  0  Line-in       Jack  Combo   Rear       Blue    0
hdaa1:     Caps: IN                  Sense: 0x00000000 (disconnected)
hdaa1: 13 90a00110 1  0  Mic           Fixed Unknown Internal   Unknown 1
hdaa1:     Caps: IN             VREF Sense: 0x00000000 (disconnected)
hdaa1: 14 400000f0 15 0  Line-out      None  Unknown 0x00       Unknown 0 DISA
hdaa1:     Caps: IN              
hdaa1: 15 01cbe030 3  0  SPDIF-in      Jack  Combo   Rear       White   0
hdaa1:     Caps: IN                  Sense: 0x00000000 (disconnected)
hdaa1: 16 014be060 6  0  SPDIF-out     Jack  Combo   Rear       White   0
hdaa1:     Caps:    OUT          
hdaa1: 18 400000f0 15 0  Line-out      None  Unknown 0x00       Unknown 0 DISA
hdaa1:     Caps: IN              
hdaa1: 21 400000f0 15 0  Line-out      None  Unknown 0x00       Unknown 0 DISA
hdaa1:     Caps:    OUT          
hdaa1: NumGPIO=4 NumGPO=0 NumGPI=0 GPIWake=0 GPIUnsol=0
hdaa1:  GPIO0: disabled
hdaa1:  GPIO1: output state=1
hdaa1:  GPIO2: disabled
hdaa1:  GPIO3: output state=1
hdac0: <ATI RV770 HDA Controller> mem 0xd0630000-0xd0633fff at device 0.1 on pci1
hdac1: <Intel Ibex Peak HDA Controller> mem 0xd0700000-0xd0703fff at device 27.0 on pci0
hdacc0: <ATI R6xx HDA CODEC> at cad 0 on hdac0
hdaa0: <ATI R6xx Audio Function Group> at nid 1 on hdacc0
pcm0: <ATI R6xx (HDMI)> at nid 3 on hdaa0
hdacc1: <Cirrus Logic CS4206 HDA CODEC> at cad 0 on hdac1
hdaa1: <Cirrus Logic CS4206 Audio Function Group> at nid 1 on hdacc1
pcm1: <Cirrus Logic CS4206 (Analog 6ch/2.0)> at nid 9,10,11 and 13 on hdaa1
pcm2: <Cirrus Logic CS4206 (Rear Analog Line-in)> at nid 12 on hdaa1
pcm3: <Cirrus Logic CS4206 (Rear Digital)> at nid 16 and 15 on hdaa1
hdac0: <ATI RV770 HDA Controller> mem 0xd0630000-0xd0633fff at device 0.1 on pci1
hdac1: <Intel Ibex Peak HDA Controller> mem 0xd0700000-0xd0703fff at device 27.0 on pci0
hdacc0: <ATI R6xx HDA CODEC> at cad 0 on hdac0
hdaa0: <ATI R6xx Audio Function Group> at nid 1 on hdacc0
pcm0: <ATI R6xx (HDMI)> at nid 3 on hdaa0
hdacc1: <Cirrus Logic CS4206 HDA CODEC> at cad 0 on hdac1
hdaa1: <Cirrus Logic CS4206 Audio Function Group> at nid 1 on hdacc1
pcm1: <Cirrus Logic CS4206 (Internal Analog 4ch/2.0)> at nid 10,11 and 13 on hdaa1
pcm2: <Cirrus Logic CS4206 (Rear Analog)> at nid 9 and 12 on hdaa1
pcm3: <Cirrus Logic CS4206 (Rear Digital)> at nid 16 and 15 on hdaa1
hdac0: <ATI RV770 HDA Controller> mem 0xd0630000-0xd0633fff at device 0.1 on pci1
hdac1: <Intel Ibex Peak HDA Controller> mem 0xd0700000-0xd0703fff at device 27.0 on pci0
hdacc0: <ATI R6xx HDA CODEC> at cad 0 on hdac0
hdaa0: <ATI R6xx Audio Function Group> at nid 1 on hdacc0
pcm0: <ATI R6xx (HDMI)> at nid 3 on hdaa0
hdacc1: <Cirrus Logic CS4206 HDA CODEC> at cad 0 on hdac1
hdaa1: <Cirrus Logic CS4206 Audio Function Group> at nid 1 on hdacc1
pcm1: <Cirrus Logic CS4206 (Internal Analog 4ch/2.0)> at nid 10,11 and 13 on hdaa1
pcm2: <Cirrus Logic CS4206 (Rear Analog)> at nid 9 and 12 on hdaa1
pcm3: <Cirrus Logic CS4206 (Rear Digital)> at nid 16 and 15 on hdaa1
In /boot/device.hints I have
Code: 
hint.hdaa.1.nid10.config="as=4 seq=2"
hint.hdaa.1.nid11.config="as=4 seq=4"
hint.hdaa.1.nid14.config="as=4 seq=0"
and I hear sound just from the speakers but if I have
Code: 
# hint.hdaa.1.nid9.config="as=4 seq=0 misc=1"
# hint.hdaa.1.nid10.config="as=4 seq=2"
# hint.hdaa.1.nid11.config="as=4 seq=4"
than I hear just from the headphones.

Any idea how to solve the problem, please?
 
A.Petrov said:
hint.hdaa.1.nid9.config="as=4 seq=15"
hint.hdaa.1.nid10.config="as=4 seq=2"
hint.hdaa.1.nid11.config="as=4 seq=4"
?
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No, it doesn't work. The sound is the same time in the speaker and in the headphones and sound is also no good.
dmesg | grep hda shows:
Code: 
hdac0: <ATI RV770 HDA Controller> mem 0xd0630000-0xd0633fff at device 0.1 on pci1
hdac1: <Intel Ibex Peak HDA Controller> mem 0xd0700000-0xd0703fff at device 27.0 on pci0
hdacc0: <ATI R6xx HDA CODEC> at cad 0 on hdac0
hdaa0: <ATI R6xx Audio Function Group> at nid 1 on hdacc0
pcm0: <ATI R6xx (HDMI)> at nid 3 on hdaa0
hdacc1: <Cirrus Logic CS4206 HDA CODEC> at cad 0 on hdac1
hdaa1: <Cirrus Logic CS4206 Audio Function Group> at nid 1 on hdacc1
pcm1: <Cirrus Logic CS4206 (Analog 6ch/2.0)> at nid 9,10,11 and 13 on hdaa1
pcm2: <Cirrus Logic CS4206 (Rear Analog Line-in)> at nid 12 on hdaa1
pcm3: <Cirrus Logic CS4206 (Rear Digital)> at nid 16 and 15 on hdaa1
hdac0: <ATI RV770 HDA Controller> mem 0xd0630000-0xd0633fff at device 0.1 on pci1
hdac1: <Intel Ibex Peak HDA Controller> mem 0xd0700000-0xd0703fff at device 27.0 on pci0
hdacc0: <ATI R6xx HDA CODEC> at cad 0 on hdac0
hdaa0: <ATI R6xx Audio Function Group> at nid 1 on hdacc0
pcm0: <ATI R6xx (HDMI)> at nid 3 on hdaa0
hdacc1: <Cirrus Logic CS4206 HDA CODEC> at cad 0 on hdac1
hdaa1: <Cirrus Logic CS4206 Audio Function Group> at nid 1 on hdacc1
pcm1: <Cirrus Logic CS4206 (Analog 4ch+HP/2.0)> at nid 10,11,9 and 13 on hdaa1
pcm2: <Cirrus Logic CS4206 (Rear Analog Line-in)> at nid 12 on hdaa1
pcm3: <Cirrus Logic CS4206 (Rear Digital)> at nid 16 and 15 on hdaa

Thank you.
 
I don't think you can solve this because it's a hardware problem. All Dell laptops have a hardware sensor that in theory should commute from speakers to headphones but most of the time that sensor remain blocked so you have to do it manually. I have a similar probleme running a GNU/Linux distribution on a Dell Latitude E6430.
 
Minbari said:
I don't think you can solve this because it's a hardware problem. All Dell laptops have a hardware sensor that in theory should commute from speakers to headphones but most of the time that sensor remain blocked so you have to do it manually. I have a similar probleme running a GNU/Linux distribution on a Dell Latitude E6430.
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I have iMac 11,1 and I tried again to solve the problem but it doesn't work. Long time ago I ran live Slax Linux and headphones/speakers dodn't have any problem.
 
I tough same Minbari. It is weird that sound fails on every installation. I solved it using:
Code: 
sysctl hw.snd.default_unit=1
 
A.Petrov said:
in conjunction with

Then only option - dig into the commits history on hda subsystem in linux, and extract line-by-line related to Cirrus Logic "patches" from linux into the FreeBSD...
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Thank you very much but I think I will have a new computer earlier than find what is a problem :).
 
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