Support #8052
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Multiple output in audio device
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Description
Hi, previously, in solaris 10, installing OSS drivers, I can use separately the different outputs of my multi-channel sound card. But in Illumos distro the sound card is recognized and works but only have one device.
This is the solaris 10 output of 'cat /dev/sndstat'
-bash-4.3# cat /dev/sndstat
OSS 4.2 (b 2011/201501280019) (C) 4Front Technologies 1996-2011
Audio devices:
0: HD Audio play front (OUTPUT)
1: HD Audio play center/LFE (OUTPUT)
2: HD Audio play rear (OUTPUT)
3: HD Audio rec rec1mux (INPUT)
4: HD Audio rec rec2mux (INPUT)
MIDI devices:
Mixers:
0: High Definition Audio STAC9221 A1
NOTICE! Device numbers shown above may be wrong.
Use the ossinfo command to find out the correct device names.
and from illumos:
root@xxxxxx:/root# cat /dev/sndstat
SunOS Audio Framework
Audio Devices:
0: audiohd#0 Intel HD Audio, ICH7 (DUPLEX)
Mixers:
0: audiohd#0 Intel HD Audio, ICH7
HD codec: Sigmatel STAC9220D
then, how can I send audio to a specific output?
Thanks in advance.
Updated by Nikola M. about 6 years ago
Hi, Can you state what illumos distro you are using and illumos checkout hash from uname -a ,
and osnet-incorporation and usernet-incorporation versions if you are on newest updated Openindiana /hipster with newest illumos to report bug.
I am also on ICH7 and I reported a bug about volume control with pulseaudio: https://www.illumos.org/issues/8042
when having multiple audio devices (in my case if I also have a webcam).
See 'audioctl list-devices' and 'audioctl show-device' , to tell if it sees multiple audio devices or not.
Could be it is about pulseaudio port but depends on your illumos distro.
Updated by Juan Jose Presa Rodal about 6 years ago
Yes, and thanks for your interest, I am using Tribblix:
- uname -a
SunOS foobar 5.11 tribblix-m18 i86pc i386 i86pc
I am not sure about kernel hash or osnet, usenet incorporation versions but I think that Tribblix is synced with upstream.
- audioctl list-devices
audiohd#0
- audioctl show-device
Device: /dev/sound/audiohd:0mixer
Name = audiohd#0
Config = Intel HD Audio (ICH7)
HW Info = HD codec: Sigmatel STAC9220D
Maybe I can test with a more widespread distribution but I remember the same problem.
Thanks in advance.
Updated by Peter Tribble about 6 years ago
The audio code in Tribblix is pure unmodified illumos-gate (commit d2c5b266b717b923ea0e28b925ddb8e66dd98b42 for the current release).
Mind you, I don't think any of the distros modify any of the audio code, and in general it hasn't been touched in a long time. . So everyone should be the same at the device level. Although OI has smarter applications available such as pulseaudio.