Major sound system update
Francois Tigeot
ftigeot at wolfpond.org
Thu Jan 8 03:40:10 PST 2015
Hi,
The sound system has been completely upgraded from FreeBSD 11-CURRENT.
A complete world + kernel rebuild sequence is required on -master.
The previous version was based on the FreeBSD 6.x branch, circa 2007
and was starting to show its age.
Among many improvements, we get:
* Much smarter volume controls
* Improved HDMI/DisplayPort audio support
* An easy way to switch the default sound device with the
hw.snd.default_unit sysctl
* HTML5/Youtube videos should play with sound out of the box
On top of the FreeBSD code, we also have additional support for the
Acer C720 Chromebook family of laptops.
--
Francois Tigeot
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