Ax0n <ax0n@h-i-r.net> writes:
> I initially noticed it when I hopped in a video room on Discord in Firefox
> and folks could see me and I could hear them, but Discord got no audio. It
> turns out, nothing gets any audio. sysctl has audio and video recording
> enabled, and pledge/unveil has been tweaked just a little for firefox to
> pick up the webcam.
>
> aucat isn't picking up any audio. playing back the WAV I recorded with
> aucat or audacity is just silence. Audacity visibly shows very very low
> audio levels in the "monitor" VU meter when recording, but no amount of
> tinkering with mixerctl, audioctl, or sndioctl seems to make a difference
> in the recorded audio -- it's just silent. Audio output is good (videos on
> youtube for example) and aucat can play other WAV files just fine. I use
> the pianobar package daily to stream Pandora while I work.
>
> I switched over to the latest snapshot and upgraded packages last night,
> and there's no change.
There are a number of newer Thinkpads this applies to (my T14s is the
same). it is because the microphones are connected differently to
previous machines and as such they would require different drivers which
do not exist on OpenBSD.
It's my understanding that even on some Linux distributions you will
find that they are not supported.
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