How do I tell which driver I need for sound?

Joshua Lokken jrlokken at gmail.com
Wed Oct 8 22:32:27 UTC 2014


On Oct/08 03:00PM, David Benfell wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 03:39:57PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> > On Wed, 8 Oct 2014, David Benfell wrote:
> > 
> > > For some reason, sound has stopped working and I assume I should
> > > reload the driver. But which one?
> > 
> > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html
> 
> Been there. There is no obvious match between the hardware I have and
> the kernel modules I have available.
> 

I have the Realtek ALC889, and I use snd_hda.  I would guess (as a previous
responder suggested) that snd_hda is the driver you need.


Joshua
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