How do I tell which driver I need for sound?

[David Benfell]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 03:32:23PM -0700, Joshua Lokken wrote:
> 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.
> 

And I finally found the GENERIC configuration. snd_hda is indeed built
in. So I'll wind up testing this on my next reboot (I've commented out
the loader.conf entry that loads a bunch of snd_* modules that I
probably don't need).

In the meantime, sound on the system passes the idiot test:

cat /dev/random > /dev/dsp

produces white noise. So I'm guessing my problem is at a higher level.

Thanks!
-- 
David Benfell <benfell at parts-unknown.org>
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