no sound on gigabyte z77 board

[togermano]

I have a GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UD5H LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard board and sound works fine on Linux and Haiku (beos clone) but doesnt work in freebsd 9.1.. Any suggestions?

 

[tingo]

What does $ cat /dev/sndstat tell you?

 

[togermano]

FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2009061500/i386)
Installed devices:
pcm0: <Realtek ALC899 (Rear Analog 7.1/2.0)> (play/rec) default
pcm1: <Realtek ALC899 (Front Analog)> (play/rec)
pcm2: <Realtek ALC899 (Onboard Digital)> (play)
pcm3: <Realtek ALC899 (Rear Digital)> (play)
pcm4: <Intel Panther Point (HDMI/DP 8ch)> (play)
pcm5: <Intel Panther Point (HDMI/DP 8ch)> (play)

 

[cpm@]

FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2009061500/i386)
Installed devices:
pcm0: <Realtek ALC899 (Rear Analog 7.1/2.0)> (play/rec) default
pcm1: <Realtek ALC899 (Front Analog)> (play/rec)
pcm2: <Realtek ALC899 (Onboard Digital)> (play)
pcm3: <Realtek ALC899 (Rear Digital)> (play)
pcm4: <Intel Panther Point (HDMI/DP 8ch)> (play)
pcm5: <Intel Panther Point (HDMI/DP 8ch)> (play)

Please, change the sound device to use:

# sysctl hw.snd.default_unit=1　
You can make this change permanent by adding the following line to /etc/sysctl.conf:

hw.snd.default_unit=1

Reboot after last change added.

Read Setting Up the Sound Card section, where you will find useful information about it.

 

[togermano]

That didnt work and I even tried to move my speakers to the front headphone jack and that did not work either

 

[wblock@]

The default unit looks right without adding a setting. The first thing to check is that the output volume is turned up:
% mixer vol

 

[togermano]

Mixer vol is currently set to 100:100



I think its detecting the wrong version of my sound card or something

 

[wblock@]

It's worth checking the audio cable is in the green jack.

 

[togermano]

Yes and again it works fine in windows/linux/and haiku

 

[cpm@]

Try this test to find out if it will produces an audible sound.
# cat /dev/random > /dev/dspX

In your example:

# cat /dev/random > /dev/dsp0
# cat /dev/random > /dev/dsp1

 

[rusty]

I have the model below yours (UD3H) and sound works correctly with one caveat.
If I am in windows and reboot to any other installed OS (FreeBSD, PC-BSD or OpenIndiana) sound does not work and requires a power off before it will work.