Re: NetBSD 9 on ThinkPad X220

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 02:11:08PM +0000, nia wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 07:24:22PM +0300, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
> > On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 07:38:31AM +0000, nia wrote:
> > > Yeah, we really shouldn't be using xf86-video-intel.
> > > It's been deprecated in favour of the modesetting driver for years.
> > 
> > The modesetting(4) driver indeed works fine. Maybe there could be a note
> > for newcomers and re-comers in x11/xf86-video-intel that this driver has
> > been deprecated.
> > 
> > > Which browser? (I'm responsible for the Firefox audio code on NetBSD.)
> > 
> > I tried both Midori and Firefox. Do I need pulseaudio for the latter? As I
> > recall, at some point they deprecated everything else at least for Linux.
> > 
> > - Jukka
> 
> Firefox needs no configuration or special options, it uses the native
> NetBSD API by default.
> 
> Midori needs audio/gst-plugins1-oss to be installed.

... fwiw in Firefox you can go to about:support, this is the output
on my X250:

Media
Audio Backend		sun
Max Channels		12
Preferred Sample Rate	48000
Output Devices
Name 	Group 	Vendor 	State 	Preferred 	Format 	Channels 	Rate 	Latency
Realtek ALC292 01h (default)	/dev/audio	Realtek	Enabled	All	default: S16LE, support: S16LE	2	default: 48000, support: 1000 - 192000	40 - 7680
Realtek ALC292 01h (0)	/dev/audio0	Realtek	Enabled	None	default: S16LE, support: S16LE	2	default: 48000, support: 1000 - 192000	40 - 7680
Input Devices
Name 	Group 	Vendor 	State 	Preferred 	Format 	Channels 	Rate 	Latency
Realtek ALC292 01h (default)	/dev/audio	Realtek	Enabled	All	default: S16LE, support: S16LE	2	default: 48000, support: 1000 - 192000	40 - 7680
Realtek ALC292 01h (0)	/dev/audio0	Realtek	Enabled	None	default: S16LE, support: S16LE	2	default: 48000, support: 1000 - 192000	40 - 7680

(www/firefox68, the most recent extended support version)