[SDBUG] BSD on Vostro laptop

[Jeff Gibbons]

Raymundo,

I have a Dell 1700 that I got the audio to work fine on under FreeBSD 7.2
(in fact, everything works great on this machine).

If your 1510 has the Sigmatel STAC 9205 audio device like my 1700 does,
you may just need to do what I did and add a line like this to your
/boot/device.hints file:

hint.hdac.0.config="gpio0"

See these URLs:

  http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/index.html?action=show_laptop_comment&commentid=42691&laptop=12646
  http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/index.html?action=show_laptop_comment&commentid=42739&laptop=12702

and "man snd_hda".  The whole http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/ site
is a great resource for running FreeBSD on various laptops.

I had to experiment a bit with the settings; I think I had to use
   hint.pcm.0.config="gpio0"
a year or two ago under FreeBSD 6, rather than hint.hdac.0.config .  
I see also in "man snd_hda" that hint.hdac.ivrefNN and ovrefNN
options control the voltage used to power external microphones;
maybe that's the problem with your audio input?

Good luck, and if you get it to work let us know,

Jeff


On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:37:54PM -0800, Raymundo M. Vega wrote:
> I received my new laptop it is a Vostro 1510. It has XP
> now but I like to install BSD, tried FreeBSD but found
> that audio driver does not have audio input.
> 
> Did several google searches and can not find any success
> stories with any of the BSD family, it seems like linux
> is my best bet. Do you guys know a good place to look?
> 
> thanks
> 
> raymundo
>