What have I done?

[Pieter de Goeje]

On Monday 24 May 2010 22:02:44 Chip Camden wrote:
> On May 24 2010 12:21, William Vining wrote:
> > I experienced a similar situation under different circumstances. It
> > turned out that the sysctl
> > variable hw.snd.default_unit was refering to the wrong sound card. Not
> > sure if thats the
> > problem, but it might be worth checking if you have multiple sound cards.
> >
> > -- WFV
> > wfvining at gmail.com
> >
> > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Chip Camden
> >
> > <sterling at camdensoftware.com> wrote:
> > > This question is going to make me sound pretty stupid, but I haven't
> > > been able to figure it out.
> > >
> > > I had mplayer (the console version) running in one urxvt, and I thought
> > > I had a different urxvt focused when I typed a command (I think it was
> > > 'make install clean') -- but mplayer was actually focused instead.  The
> > > ENTER caused mplayer to close (I was listening to a stream URL), and
> > > because I had exec'd mplayer its terminal window closed as well.
> > >
> > > I cursed myself for losing focus on my focus, and attempted to restart
> > > mplayer.  It acts like it is playing the track, but no sound.  I've
> > > tried unmute, turning the volume all the way up, deleting my .mplayer
> > > files, still no joy.  I even shutdown and powered off and then
> > > rebooted.  Any other suggestions?
> > > --
>
> OK, there's more going on here than I realized.  My sound seems to be
> disabled if I load the driver in /boot/loader.conf, but works OK if I use
> kldload after booting instead.  Bizarre.  I've repeated the experiment
> several times with the same results, using either snd_driver or snd_hda.
>
> cat /dev/sndstat (when working):
>
> FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2009061500/amd64)
> Installed devices:
> pcm0: <HDA IDT 92HD81B1X PCM #0 Analog> (play/rec) default
> pcm1: <HDA IDT 92HD81B1X PCM #1 Analog> (rec)
> pcm2: <HDA Intel G45 HDMI PCM #0 DisplayPort> (play)

The order of the the devices may change depending on wether you kldload the 
driver or use loader.conf. As suggested by William Vining, use the sysctl 
hw.snd.default_unit to select the correct default pcm device.

-- 
Pieter de Goeje