From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 29 04:06:51 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A4221065674 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:06:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from liontaur@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C26D8FC19 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:06:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz3 with SMTP id 3so2214191bwz.13 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:06:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:cc:content-type; bh=ioModqfiNTezRnKGhmA9DY404HcrhxE9Tb3OBp1PFEI=; b=khP0lYg1KjdLyWFaHPlu3ENKtZddjbbUguUzl10S+nqzB7NQTeNeBLlBIkCNgKFptt 9J3Du+BY+0w6gui7EPpxmQzpXsamyx9OaqRLDuBr3qCmLNjXjJ4yrvJ9zAIK/iQaqHMc AlYLAUz0Va8wxhlPYEgvHglrzCrbjNKrL2nB8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:cc :content-type; b=WleGQ30LxF3UGbGyCQtFfY66BHkOzN+1OVil1LBhj38YgnYU5Wd6I+rD2Fsp0+DuIK T9Zdl0m0q4ej9XnRU0YlFJUdM60kpiquhbz/KKzpe/bHgHJDDblkarYIO3aTBRyOxwDh Hc7sXruJhMSOGRMdyuzSkEuPDeRa4OxXp7QS4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.69.81 with SMTP id y17mr319285bki.86.1288325209502; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:06:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.4.196 with HTTP; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:06:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4CC9A8C9.1010200@yahoo.fr> References: <4CC9A8C9.1010200@yahoo.fr> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:06:49 -0700 Message-ID: From: Liontaur Cc: FreeBSD questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Resetting the sound system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:06:51 -0000 2010/10/28 Micha=EBl Gr=FCnewald > Dear list, > > the audio software I use sometimes seems to handle unappropriately its > input and leave the sound system in a strange state. When this happens, = the > lowest frequencies of the played sound are very attenuated and what is st= ill > audible sounds unpleasantly metallic. Rebooting the machine immediately > brings up the sound system in shape again, but it would be nice if they w= ere > a more sensible way to reset it! > > Here are the relevant lines of `dmesg`: > > pcm0: port 0xe100-0xe1ff irq 22 at device 17.5 on pci0 > pcm0: [ITHREAD] > pcm0: > pcm0: > > Best regards, > Michael Not sure if there's an easier way, but if you've got the audio driver kldloaded then just unload and reload it. If it's compiled in your kernel then I don't know. kldunload snd_via8233 kldload snd_via8233 Mark