Re: Muting only affects audio that is playing

On Sat Jan 3, 2026 at 9:44 PM CET, Sean C. Farley wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jan 2026, Christos Margiolis wrote:
>> That's odd indeed. What is the output of mixer(8) once the sound is
>> unmuted? Does this happen with other audio devices (if you have any), or
>> only with this one?
>
> If the mixer is in the muted state, then it remains that way even after 
> the sound is being output:
>      vol       = 0.50:0.50     pbk mute
>
> Apparently, the issue is only with this card.  I just enabled the 
> onboard audio device (ALC4080), and it does not exhibit the same 
> problem.  This is probably why I wondered if this problem was new as I 
> had switched a few months ago to the sound card.  I thought I had just 
> not run into it before now.

But what this *not* a problem with the card in question at some point in
the past? Or did it appear after some update?

> uaudio0: <Generic USB Audio, class 239/2, rev 2.00/0.03, addr 1> on usbus0
> ugen0.2: <USB Audio ASUSTek Computer, Inc.> at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=ON (100mA)
>
> It is probably unrelated, but I did hear a hum just now from my speakers 
> although nothing was playing.  Reseating the audio cables fixed it. 
> They are pretty old Altec Lansing speakers but still sound very nice.
>
> One more oddity but extremely rare.  I have heard music from my speakers 
> when the power for the speakers was off.  That was when I was using the 
> onboard sound.

This sound more like a hardware issue, but I'm not entirely sure without
more information, unfortunately.

> Sean

Christos