How do I tell which driver I need for sound?

[Warren Block]

On Wed, 8 Oct 2014, 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.

The important part is
   cat /dev/sndstat

But for most motherboards, adding
   snd_hda_load="YES"

to /boot/loader.conf is enough.