Dear FreeBSD users,
I recently decided to revisit my attempts to install FreeBSD 10.x on an older MacBook 5,1 (2008-2009 series) device. It has nice, integrated nVidia graphics (GeForce 9400M), well supported by the binary blob and a Broadcom bcm4322 wireless adapter that is supposedly being worked on.
In essence, almost everything works as advertised...except sound.
The sound card in question is Realtek ALC889A that was put into MacBook and MacBook Pro 5,1 laptops. I did some basic troubleshooting, though with hardly any progress. I also read forum posts on our FreeBSD forums here, alas it did not seem like anyone achieved much success. Therefore, before we go into any technicalities, I would like to know whether anyone has actually made the Realtek ALC889A chip cooperate.
The primary goal is to get the integrated speakers to work, with a secondary goal of enabling hot-plugging of headphones to the jack port.
I recently decided to revisit my attempts to install FreeBSD 10.x on an older MacBook 5,1 (2008-2009 series) device. It has nice, integrated nVidia graphics (GeForce 9400M), well supported by the binary blob and a Broadcom bcm4322 wireless adapter that is supposedly being worked on.
In essence, almost everything works as advertised...except sound.
The sound card in question is Realtek ALC889A that was put into MacBook and MacBook Pro 5,1 laptops. I did some basic troubleshooting, though with hardly any progress. I also read forum posts on our FreeBSD forums here, alas it did not seem like anyone achieved much success. Therefore, before we go into any technicalities, I would like to know whether anyone has actually made the Realtek ALC889A chip cooperate.
The primary goal is to get the integrated speakers to work, with a secondary goal of enabling hot-plugging of headphones to the jack port.