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28.Dd January 11, 2012
29.Dt SND_HDA 4
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm snd_hda
33.Nd "Intel High Definition Audio bridge device driver"
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your
36kernel configuration file:
37.Bd -ragged -offset indent
38.Cd "device sound"
39.Cd "device snd_hda"
40.Ed
41.Pp
42Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the
43following line in
44.Xr loader.conf 5 :
45.Bd -literal -offset indent
46snd_hda_load="YES"
47.Ed
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49The High Definition (HD) Audio specification was developed by Intel as the
50logical successor of the old AC'97 specification and has several advantages,
51such as higher bandwidth which allows more channels and more detailed formats,
52support for several logical audio devices, and general purpose DMA channels.
53.Pp
54The
55.Nm
56driver includes HDA bus controller driver (hdac), HDA codec driver (hdacc)
57and HDA codecs audio functions bridge driver (hdaa) that allows
58the generic audio driver,
59.Xr sound 4 ,
60to be used with this hardware.
61Only audio functions are supported by
62.Nm .
63Modem and other possible functions are not implemented.
64.Pp
65The
66.Nm
67driver supports hardware that conforms with revision 1.0 of the Intel High
68Definition Audio specification and tries to behave much like the Microsoft
69Universal Audio Architecture (UAA) draft (revision 0.7b) for handling audio
70devices.
71.Pp
72According to HDA and UAA specifications, depending on the number of HDA buses
73and codecs present in system, their audio capabilities and BIOS provided
74configuration, the
75.Nm
76driver often provides several PCM audio devices.
77For example, one device for main rear 7.1 output and inputs, one device
78for independent headset connectors at front and one device for SPDIF or
79HDMI audio input/output.
80The assignment of audio inputs and outputs may be tuned with
81.Xr device.hints 5
82or
83.Xr sysctl 8 .
84The driver's verbose boot messages provide a lot of information about
85the operation of the driver and present audio setup.
86.Pp
87The default audio device may be tuned by setting the
88.Ar hw.snd.default_unit
89sysctl, as described in
90.Xr sound 4 ,
91or explicitly specified in application settings.
92.Ss Boot-time Configuration
93The following variables are available at boot-time through the
94.Xr device.hints 5
95file:
96.Bl -tag -width ".Va hint.hdac.%d.config"-offset indent
97.It Va hint.hdac.%d.config
98Configures a range of possible controller options.
99Possible values are:
100.Dq Li 64bit ,
101.Dq Li dmapos ,
102.Dq Li msi .
103An option prefixed with
104.Dq Li no ,
105such as
106.Dq Li nomsi ,
107will do the opposite and takes precedence.
108Options can be separated by whitespace and commas.
109.It Va hint.hdac.%d.msi
110Controls MSI (Message Signaled Interrupts) support.
111.It Va hint.hdac.%d.cad%d.nid%d.config
112Same as
113.Va hint.hdaa.%d.nid%d.config
114.It Va hint.hdaa.%d.config
115Configures a range of possible audio function options.
116Possible values are:
117.Dq Li eapdinv ,
118.Dq Li ivref ,
119.Dq Li ivref50 ,
120.Dq Li ivref80 ,
121.Dq Li ivref100 ,
122.Dq Li fixedrate ,
123.Dq Li forcestereo ,
124.Dq Li ovref ,
125.Dq Li ovref50 ,
126.Dq Li ovref80 ,
127.Dq Li ovref100 ,
128.Dq Li senseinv ,
129.Dq Li softpcmvol ,
130and
131.Dq Li vref .
132An option prefixed with
133.Dq Li no ,
134such as
135.Dq Li nofixedrate ,
136will do the opposite and takes precedence.
137Options can be separated by whitespace and commas.
138.Pp
139The
140.Dq Li eapdinv
141option inverts External Amplifier Power Down signal.
142The
143.Dq Li fixedrate
144denies all sampling rates except 48KHz.
145The
146.Dq Li forcestereo
147denies mono playback/recording.
148The
149.Dq Li senseinv
150option inverts jack sensing logic.
151The
152.Dq Li ivref Ns Ar X
153and
154.Dq Li ovref Ns Ar X
155options control the voltage used to power external microphones.
156.It Va hint.hdaa.%d.gpio_config
157Overrides audio function GPIO pins configuration set by BIOS.
158May be specified as a set of space-separated
159.Dq Ar num Ns = Ns Ar value
160pairs, where
161.Ar num
162is GPIO line number, and
163.Ar value
164is one of:
165.Dq Li keep ,
166.Dq Li set ,
167.Dq Li clear ,
168.Dq Li disable
169and
170.Dq Li input .
171.Pp
172.Dq Li GPIO Ns s
173are a codec's General Purpose I/O pins which system integrators sometimes
174use to control external muters, amplifiers and so on.
175If you have no sound, or sound volume is not adequate, you may have to
176experiment a bit with the GPIO setup to find the optimal setup for your
177system.
178.It Va hint.hdaa.%d.nid%d.config
179Overrides audio function pin configuration set by BIOS.
180May be specified as a 32-bit hexadecimal value with a leading
181.Dq 0x ,
182or as a set of space-separated
183.Dq Ar option Ns = Ns Ar value
184pairs.
185.El
186.Pp
187Pin configuration is the UAA driver's main source of information about codec
188usage.
189This information is usually provided by the codec manufacturer and tuned
190by system integrators for specific system requirements.
191The
192.Nm
193driver allows users to override it to fix integrator mistakes or to use the
194available codec in alternative ways (for example to get stereo output and 2
195inputs instead of a single 5.1 output).
196.Pp
197The following options are supported:
198.Bl -tag -width ".Va device=" -offset indent
199.It Va as
200Association number.
201Associations are used to group individual pins to form a complex multi-pin
202device.
203For example, to group 4 connectors for 7.1 input/output, or to treat several
204input connectors as sources for the same input device.
205Association numbers can be specified as numeric values from 0 to 15.
206A value of 0 means disabled pin.
207A value of 15 is a set of independent unassociated pins.
208Each association includes only pins of the same direction (in/out) and is
209detected atomically (all pins or none).
210A separate PCM audio device is created for every pair of input and
211output associations.
212.It Va seq
213Sequence number.
214A unique, per-association number used to order pins inside the
215particular association.
216Sequence numbers can be specified as numeric values from 0 to 15.
217.Pp
218The sequence number 15 has a special meaning for output associations.
219Output pins with this number and device type
220.Dq Ar Headphones
221will duplicate (with automatic mute if jack detection is supported) the
222first pin in that association.
223.Pp
224The sequence numbers 14 and 15 has a special meaning for input associations.
225Their presence in association defines it as multiplexed or mixed respectively.
226If none of them present and there are more then one pin in association,
227the association will provide multichannel input.
228.Pp
229For multichannel input/output assotiations sequence numbers encode
230channel pairs positions:
2310 - Front, 1 - Center/LFE, 2 - Back, 3 - Front Wide Center, 4 - Side.
232Standard combinations are: (0) - Stereo; (0, 2), (0, 4) - Quadro;
233(0, 1, 2), (0, 1, 4) - 5.1; (0, 1, 2, 4) - 7.1.
234.It Va device
235Device type.
236Can be specified as a number from 0 to 15 or as a name:
237.Dq Li Line-out ,
238.Dq Li Speaker ,
239.Dq Li Headphones,
240.Dq Li CD ,
241.Dq Li SPDIF-out ,
242.Dq Li Digital-out ,
243.Dq Li Modem-line ,
244.Dq Li Modem-handset ,
245.Dq Li Line-in ,
246.Dq Li AUX ,
247.Dq Li Mic ,
248.Dq Li Telephony ,
249.Dq Li SPDIF-in ,
250.Dq Li Digital-in ,
251.Dq Li Res.E ,
252or
253.Dq Li Other .
254The device type also describes the pin direction (in/out).
255For example,
256.Dq Li CD
257always means an input pin, while
258.Dq Li Headphones
259always means an output.
260.It Va conn
261Connection type.
262Can be specified as a number from 0 to 3.
263The connection type can also be specified as one of the special names
264.Dq Li Jack ,
265.Dq Li None ,
266.Dq Li Fixed ,
267or
268.Dq Li Both .
269Pins with a connection type of
270.Dq Li None
271are disabled.
272.It Va ctype
273Connector physical type.
274Can be specified as a number from 0 to 15.
275This is a reference only value.
276It is ignored by the
277.Nm
278driver.
279.It Va color
280Connector color.
281Can be specified as a number from 0 to 15 or as one of the names
282.Dq Li Unknown ,
283.Dq Li Black ,
284.Dq Li Grey ,
285.Dq Li Blue ,
286.Dq Li Green ,
287.Dq Li Red ,
288.Dq Li Orange ,
289.Dq Li Yellow ,
290.Dq Li Purple ,
291.Dq Li Pink ,
292.Dq Li Res.A ,
293.Dq Li Res.B ,
294.Dq Li Res.C ,
295.Dq Li Res.D ,
296.Dq Li White ,
297or
298.Dq Li Other .
299This is a reference only value.
300It is ignored by the
301.Nm
302driver.
303.It Va loc
304Connector physical location.
305Can be specified as a number from 0 to 63.
306This is a reference only value.
307It is ignored by the
308.Nm
309driver.
310.It Va misc
311Misc bits.
312Can be specified as a number from 0 to 15.
313Bit 0 has a special meaning.  When set it means that jack detection is
314not implemented in hardware.
315.El
316.Ss Runtime Configuration
317The following
318.Xr sysctl 8
319variables are available in addition to those available to all
320.Xr sound 4
321devices:
322.Bl -tag -width ".Va dev.hdaa.%d.nid%d_original" -offset indent
323.It Va dev.hdac.%d.pindump
324Setting this to a non-zero value dumps the current pin configuration, main
325capabilities and jack sense status of all audio functions on the controller
326to console and syslog.
327.It Va dev.hdac.%d.polling
328Enables polling mode.
329In this mode the driver operates by querying the device state on timer
330ticks using
331.Xr callout 9
332instead of interrupts.
333Polling is disabled by default.
334Do not enable it unless you are facing weird interrupt problems or if the
335device cannot generate interrupts at all.
336.It Va dev.hdaa.%d.config
337Run-time equivalent of the
338.Va hint.hdaa.%d.config
339tunable.
340.It Va dev.hdaa.%d.gpi_state
341Current state of GPI lines.
342.It Va dev.hdaa.%d.gpio_state
343Current state of GPIO lines.
344.It Va dev.hdaa.%d.gpio_config
345Run-time equivalent of the
346.Va hint.hdaa.%d.gpio.config
347tunable.
348.It Va dev.hdaa.%d.gpo_state
349Current state of GPO lines.
350.It Va dev.hdaa.%d.nid%d_config
351Run-time equivalent of the
352.Va hint.hdaa.%d.nid%d.config
353tunable.
354.It Va dev.hdaa.%d.nid%d_original
355Original pin configuration written by BIOS.
356.It Va dev.hdaa.%d.reconfig
357Setting this to a non-zero value makes driver to destroy existing pcm devices
358and process new pins configuration set via
359.Va dev.hdaa.%d.nid%d_config.
360.El
361.Sh EXAMPLES
362Taking HP Compaq DX2300 with Realtek ALC888 HDA codec for example.
363This system has two audio connectors on a front side, three audio connectors
364on a rear side and one internal speaker.
365According to verbose driver output and the codec datasheet,
366this codec has five stereo DACs and two stereo ADCs, all of them are routable to
367any codec pin (external connector).
368All codec pins are reversible (could be configured either as input or output).
369.Pp
370So high codec uniformity and flexibility allow driver to configure it in many
371different ways, depending on requested pins usage described by pins configuration.
372The driver reports such default pin configuration when verbose messages enabled:
373.Bd -literal
374hdaa0: nid   0x    as seq device       conn  jack    loc        color   misc
375hdaa0: 20 01014020 2  0  Line-out      Jack  1/8     Rear       Green   0
376hdaa0: 21 99130110 1  0  Speaker       Fixed ATAPI   Onboard    Unknown 1
377hdaa0: 22 411111f0 15 0  Speaker       None  1/8     Rear       Black   1 DISA
378hdaa0: 23 411111f0 15 0  Speaker       None  1/8     Rear       Black   1 DISA
379hdaa0: 24 01a19830 3  0  Mic           Jack  1/8     Rear       Pink    8
380hdaa0: 25 02a1983f 3  15 Mic           Jack  1/8     Front      Pink    8
381hdaa0: 26 01813031 3  1  Line-in       Jack  1/8     Rear       Blue    0
382hdaa0: 27 0221401f 1  15 Headphones    Jack  1/8     Front      Green   0
383hdaa0: 28 411111f0 15 0  Speaker       None  1/8     Rear       Black   1 DISA
384hdaa0: 30 411111f0 15 0  Speaker       None  1/8     Rear       Black   1 DISA
385hdaa0: 31 411111f0 15 0  Speaker       None  1/8     Rear       Black   1 DISA
386.Ed
387.Pp
388Here we can see, that the nodes with ID (nid) 25 and 27 are front panel
389connectors (Jack, Front), nids 20, 24 and 26 are rear panel connectors
390(Jack, Rear) and nid 21 is a built-in speaker (Fixed, Onboard).
391Pins with nids 22, 23, 28, 30 and 31 will be disabled by driver due to "None"
392connectivity. So the pin count and description matches to connectors that
393we have.
394.Pp
395Using association (as) and sequence (seq) fields values pins are grouped into
3963 associations:
397.Bd -literal
398hdaa0: Association 0 (1) out:
399hdaa0:   Pin nid=21 seq=0
400hdaa0:   Pin nid=27 seq=15
401hdaa0: Association 1 (2) out:
402hdaa0:   Pin nid=20 seq=0
403hdaa0: Association 2 (3) in:
404hdaa0:   Pin nid=24 seq=0
405hdaa0:   Pin nid=26 seq=1
406hdaa0:   Pin nid=25 seq=15
407.Ed
408.Pp
409Each
410.Xr pcm 4
411device uses two associations: one for playback and one for recording.
412Associations processed and assigned to
413.Xr pcm 4
414devices in increasing numerical order.
415In this case association #0 (1) will become
416.Li pcm0
417device playback, using the internal speakers and
418.Ar Headphones
419jack with speaker automute on the headphones jack connection.
420Association #1 (2) will become
421.Li pcm1
422playback, using the
423.Ar Line-out
424jack.
425Association #2 (3) will become
426.Li pcm0
427recording, using the external microphones and the
428.Ar Line-in
429jack.
430.Pp
431The
432.Nm
433driver provides extensive verbose messages to diagnose its operation
434logic and describe its current codec configuration.
435.Pp
436Using
437.Xr device.hints 5
438it is possible to modify the configuration of the existing pins,
439allowing a broad range of different audio setups.
440Here are a few examples of some setups possible for this particular
441hardware:
442.Ss Example 1
443Setting the
444.Xr device.hints 5
445options
446.Bd -literal
447hint.hdac.0.cad0.nid20.config="as=1"
448hint.hdac.0.cad0.nid21.config="as=2"
449.Ed
450.Pp
451will swap line-out and speaker functions.
452So the
453.Li pcm0
454device will play to the line-out and headphones jacks. Line-out will
455be muted on the headphones jack connection.
456Recording on
457.Li pcm0
458will go from two external microphones and line-in jacks.
459.Li pcm1
460playback will go to the internal speaker.
461.Pp
462.Ss Example 2
463Setting the
464.Xr device.hints 5
465options
466.Bd -literal
467hint.hdac.0.cad0.nid20.config="as=1 seq=15 device=Headphones"
468hint.hdac.0.cad0.nid27.config="as=2 seq=0"
469hint.hdac.0.cad0.nid25.config="as=4 seq=0"
470.Ed
471.Pp
472will split the headphones and one of the microphones to a separate device.
473The
474.Li pcm0
475device will play to the internal speaker and to the line-out jack, with
476speaker automute on the line-out jack connection.
477Recording on
478.Li pcm0
479will use input from one external microphone and the line-in jacks.
480The
481.Li pcm1
482device will be completely dedicated to a headset (headphones and mic)
483connected to the front connectors.
484.Pp
485.Ss Example 3
486Setting the
487.Xr device.hints 5
488options
489.Bd -literal
490hint.hdac.0.cad0.nid20.config="as=1 seq=0"
491hint.hdac.0.cad0.nid26.config="as=2 seq=0"
492hint.hdac.0.cad0.nid27.config="as=3 seq=0"
493hint.hdac.0.cad0.nid25.config="as=4 seq=0"
494hint.hdac.0.cad0.nid24.config="as=5 seq=0 device=Line-out"
495hint.hdac.0.cad0.nid21.config="as=6 seq=0"
496.Ed
497.Pp
498will give 4 independent devices:
499.Li pcm0
500.Pq line-out and line-in ,
501.Li pcm1
502.Pq headphones and mic ,
503.Li pcm2
504.Pq additional line-out via retasked rear mic jack ,
505and
506.Li pcm3
507.Pq internal speaker .
508.Pp
509.Ss Example 4
510Setting the
511.Xr device.hints 5
512options
513.Bd -literal
514hint.hdac.0.cad0.nid20.config="as=1 seq=0"
515hint.hdac.0.cad0.nid24.config="as=1 seq=1 device=Line-out"
516hint.hdac.0.cad0.nid26.config="as=1 seq=2 device=Line-out"
517hint.hdac.0.cad0.nid21.config="as=2 seq=0"
518.Ed
519.Pp
520will give 2 devices:
521.Li pcm0
522for 5.1 playback via 3 rear connectors (line-out and retasked
523mic and line-in) and headset (headphones and mic) at front connectors.
524.Li pcm1
525for internal speaker playback.
526On headphones connection rear connectors will be muted.
527.Sh MIXER CONTROLS
528Depending on codec configuration, these controls and signal sources could be
529reported to
530.Xr sound 4 :
531.Bl -tag -width ".Va speaker" -offset indent
532.It Va vol
533overall output level (volume)
534.It Va rec
535overall recording level
536.It Va igain
537input-to-output monitoring loopback level
538.It Va ogain
539external amplifier control
540.It Va pcm
541PCM playback
542.It Va mix
543input mix
544.It Va mic
545first external or second internal microphone input
546.It Va monitor
547first internal or second external microphone input
548.It Va line , Va line1 , Va line2, Va line3
549analog (line) inputs
550.It Va dig1 , Va dig2 , Va dig3
551digital (S/PDIF, HDMI or DisplayPort) inputs
552.It Va cd
553CD input
554.It Va speaker
555PC speaker input
556.It Va phin , Va phout , Va radio . Va video
557other random inputs
558.El
559.Pp
560Controls have different precision. Some could be just an on/off triggers.
561Most of controls use logarithmic scale.
562.Sh HARDWARE
563The
564.Nm
565driver supports controllers having PCI class 4 (multimedia) and
566subclass 3 (HDA), compatible with Intel HDA specification.
567.Pp
568The
569.Nm
570driver supports more then two hundred different controllers and CODECs.
571There is no sense to list all of them here, as in most cases specific CODEC
572configuration and wiring are more important then type of the CODEC itself.
573.Sh SEE ALSO
574.Xr sound 4 ,
575.Xr snd_ich 4 ,
576.Xr device.hints 5 ,
577.Xr loader.conf 5 ,
578.Xr sysctl 8
579.Sh HISTORY
580The
581.Nm
582device driver first appeared in
583.Fx 6.3 .
584.Sh AUTHORS
585.An -nosplit
586The
587.Nm
588driver was written by
589.An Stephane E. Potvin Aq sepotvin@videotron.ca ,
590.An Ariff Abdullah Aq ariff@FreeBSD.org
591and
592.An Alexander Motin Aq mav@FreeBSD.org .
593This manual page was written by
594.An Joel Dahl Aq joel@FreeBSD.org ,
595.An Alexander Motin Aq mav@FreeBSD.org
596and
597.An Giorgos Keramidas Aq keramida@FreeBSD.org .
598.Sh BUGS
599Some Hardware/OEM vendors tend to screw up BIOS settings or use custom
600unusual CODEC wiring that create problems to the driver.
601This may result in missing pcm devices, or a state where the
602.Nm
603driver seems to attach and work, but no sound is played.
604Some cases can be solved by tuning
605.Pa loader.conf
606variables.
607But before trying to fix problem that way, make sure that there really is
608a problem and that the PCM audio device in use really corresponds to the
609expected audio connector.
610.Pp
611Some vendors use non-standardized General Purpose I/O (GPIO) pins of the codec
612to control external amplifiers.
613In some cases setting a combination of GPIO bits may be needed to make
614sound work on a specific device.
615.Pp
616HDMI and DisplayPort audio may also require support from video driver.
617