Getting sound to work on a Chromebook

jb1277976 said:
IF you could point me at a suggestion would be nice..

Is it a dongle you hook up internally or just a straight USB piece that sits out of the laptop like a wifi dongle ?
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Actually any of the very very cheap USB audio cards are going to use a very basic and well supported chipset typically so you should be good with any low-end USB dongle audio card. I've yet to have any cheap USB audio dongles that aren't well supported across operating systems. If you want higher audio quality I would recommend Scarlett focusrite brand. They work well on FreeBSD and I use one on one of my systems a Scarlett solo.
 
LibreQuest said:
Actually any of the very very cheap USB audio cards are going to use a very basic and well supported chipset typically so you should be good with any low-end USB dongle audio card. I've yet to have any cheap USB audio dongles that aren't well supported across operating systems. If you want higher audio quality I would recommend Scarlett focusrite brand. They work well on FreeBSD and I use one on one of my systems a Scarlett solo.
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If you are talking about a dongle that has a mic and speaker that go to headphones i have one of those already i got it from Amazon when i was on freebsd last time.. I'm back on freebsd on the chromebook just to see if anyone can take a closer look at it..

I have freebsd on two other laptops for personal use nothing fancy
 
jb1277976 said:
If you are talking about a dongle that has a mic and speaker that go to headphones i have one of those already i got it from Amazon when i was on freebsd last time.. I'm back on freebsd on the chromebook just to see if anyone can take a closer look at it..

I have freebsd on two other laptops for personal use nothing fancy
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I think some of the Chromebooks have audio on sdio. So there just isn't support for it.

Edit: looks like there is sdio support since 13. Maybe the drivers just aren't available for some devices?

 
LibreQuest said:
I think some of the Chromebooks have audio on sdio. So there just isn't support for it.

Edit: looks like there is sdio support since 13. Maybe the drivers just aren't available for some devices?

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Sorry been busy..

Did you basically give up trying to get sound working on your chromebook and went the dongle route ? i'm thinking about it. sound plays find with the usb audio setup i have. i just hate wearing headphones lol

Joe
 
That was the only solution I could find. But Chromebooks are rather unfortunately designed hardware. I was given the one that I have. The fact that it runs FreeBSD as well as it does is nice. But there is a lack of audio for sure. I don't know if the sound is on SDIO or not but I don't know anything about making drivers so I didn't put much time into using the internal sound card.
 
LibreQuest said:
That was the only solution I could find. But Chromebooks are rather unfortunately designed hardware. I was given the one that I have. The fact that it runs FreeBSD as well as it does is nice. But there is a lack of audio for sure. I don't know if the sound is on SDIO or not but I don't know anything about making drivers so I didn't put much time into using the internal sound card.
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Got it..

Yes I still can't believe I still have freeBSD on this laptop with no sound. It's ok my dongle saved me from putting gentoo back on it. freeBSD is freedom for me and no hassle.

Thanks again
 
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